Truss: Aviation Safety Regulation Review

[Sarcs]

Also worth mentioning.

Why am I not surprised Ziggy...

There was also this bit of trivia mentioned in a February 2014 SMH article - Rex hyperbole aside, Australia's airlines are genuinely hurting:

With John Sharp, a former transport minister in the Howard government, as its deputy chairman, Rex knows what it takes to apply the blowtorch in order to serve its own interests. The airline was a large donor to both sides of politics last financial year. While it was a vocal critic of Gillard government policies, it was also one of Labor's biggest benefactors, injecting $250,000 into the party's coffers.

And sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words...



On another related matter I was doing some research on the FF runway width edict about to be inflicted on some.. operators. Many of these AOC holders have been operating safely and incident free, in some cases for more than 2 decades, with exemptions to ICAO minimum runway width requirements.. However from 13 November 2014 FF (BASR) will suddenly deem these operators as unsafe...

Going through the non-legislative instruments (exemptions) I was able to find 22 min runway width exemptions that are yet to expire:

Runway width exemptions current as of 18 September 2014:
1. CASA EX83/14– Expires 13 November 2014.(not<18m)
2. CASA EX62/14 - Expires end of July 2017.(not<30m)
3. CASA EX47/14 - Expires end of May 2017.(not<23m)
4. CASA EX45/14 - Expires 13 November 2014.(not<18m)
5. CASA EX40/14 - Expires end of April 2017.(not<30m)
6. CASA EX18/14 – Expires (earlier of) 28 February 2017.(not<18m)
7. CASA EX107/13 –Expires 31 August 2016.(not<30m)
8. CASA EX94/13– Expires 31 July 2016.(not<30m)
9. CASA EX92/13 – Expires end of July 2016. (Aerodrome Operator)
10. CASA EX79/13 – Expires end of June 2016. (Aerodrome Operator)
11. CASA EX39/13 – Expires end of October 2014.(not<18m)
12. CASA EX187/12 – Expires 30 November 2014.(not<30m)
13. CASA EX96/12 – Expires 30 June 2015.(not<30m)
14. CASA EX75/12 – Expires end of April 2015.(not<30m)
15. CASA EX37/12 – Expires end of February 2015.(not<18m)(REX)
16. CASA EX36/12 – Expires end of February 2015.(not<18m)(Pel-Air)
17. CASA EX28/12 – Expires end of February 2015.(not<30m)
18. CASA EX27/12 – Expires end of February 2015.(not<30m)
19. CASA EX25/12 - Expires end of February 2015.(not<30m)
20. CASA EX24/12 - Expires end of February 2015.(not<18m)
21. CASA EX23/12 - Expires end of February 2015.(not<30m)
22. CASA EX22/12 - Expires end of February 2015.(not<30m)

Going through one by one it becomes very obvious (No. 1 is a classic) that FF have absolutely no intention of stopping their rule 101 'divide & conquer' embuggerance of smaller operators... Safety case be buggered it is simply 'pay the piper' or else suffer the consequences..i.e. BOHICA.

MTF...