Agree slats Beaker looked far more fidgety than usual...
Heard a rumour that not only has the bureau kept the IOS in the dark (on the progress of the TSBC report) but also the miniscule's office has only recently been updated with where it is at...
Anyway here is part 1-3 of Fort Fumble's rudderless attempt to placate the Senators with spin & bulldust that no-one any longer believes (including the man at the back of the room..
)
MTF...
Ps Passing strange..
..the Hansard from Monday is still yet to be released yet the RRAT Ag sitting (yesterday) has already been published, see
here.
Pps Ok all good Hansard out now, see
here.
The following was one part that some maybe missed (from 2nd vid above) but in light of the endless supply chain to Executive trough it is IMO most revealing:
Senator FAWCETT: All those costs flow on to the industry. It was only a
couple of years ago that a fuel excise increase was levied—can we keep the noise down, please, because the witness cannot even hear the question {
DF it could be more the fact that the arrogant **** did not want to hear the question}.
A fuel levy was indexed on the industry to pay for, amongst other things, increased staff at CASA. And yet, when I look at the changes in staff categories from 2010 to 2013, I
see that your corporate services are now 441, which is an increase of 91, but your
flying operations inspectors are down to 70, which is a decrease of 15. So you are levying industry for
supposed safety outcomes, yet it is your corporate services area that is growing, not your flying operations inspectors. In net terms, have you done modelling to ascertain that you will have sufficient people to do the testing that part 61 requires, without an undue cost on industry?
Mr Farquharson : Not to my knowledge.
{WTF...is this bloke for real??}
Senator FAWCETT: Is that a satisfactory condition, given that part 61 is now going to influence the operations of the entire aviation industry—to not know if you are going to have enough examiners to meet the legal requirements?
Mr Farquharson : The indications that we are seeing from the people uptaking the transition is that there will be, and we are facilitating people to move into that environment.
Senator FAWCETT: So you are hoping that there will be enough people. You have not actually done any modelling to give yourself some comfort—before designing the whole part 61—that you would have enough workforce to do this crucial function?
If you wanted anymore a perfect example of how totally f
d up and ill-considered Part 61 is you've got it all there in black & white, just a pity it was (almost) lost in all the other shenanigans going on...