Truss: Aviation Safety Regulation Review

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First test - Part 61

Although the debate and comments on here are extremely entertaining, for mine, Mach E Avelli gets the post of the day award...:

But as well as being a 'good guy' we can only hope that he is totally ruthless and takes a flamethrower to all the dross at CASA. Like, next week. Pay them out. It will cost the taxpayer in the short term, but think of the ongoing savings if so many snouts are removed from the trough.

Once he's done that, maybe he can order whoever survives the cull to cut and paste the NZ regulations in their entirety. No more stuffing about with why Australia is 'different' to NZ. No more pandering to EASA or ICAO. File the differences. ICAO will suck it up.

Then exert muscle to have the rules quickly passed into law. Forget further industry consultation too, because if it works in NZ it will work here. For once just admit the Kiwis did get it mostly right. Live with the imperfections, such as they are.

Sometimes I hanker for benevolent dictatorship.....

There is no doubt that the former RAAF Commander will have to hit the floor running... And from Kharon's post above it would appear the first matter to address is Part 61... Hopefully the new DAS will take on-board such helpful advice freely provided by Mach and decides to totally bin Part 61.. and implement the CAANZ (with a few minor tweaks) Part 61 - see here. To do so would totally give all the right messages to the IOS and should be warmly embraced by M&M as it would surely (in one fell swoop) exceed the CAsA RTR set target of $12 million dollars in savings to industry (gold stars all round..)...

Estimates RRAT 20/10/14 - CASA Part 1 - YouTube

...not to mention that it would be in line with the miniscule & dept policy and Future areas of focus in regard to deregulation within the aviation sector:

Future areas of focus

• The Government is actively considering its response to the Aviation Safety Regulation Review, released on 3 June 2014. A key finding is the importance of regulator behaviour, which is also a major component of the Government’s drive for best practice regulation.
•  The Department is continuing to undertake reforms at the 19 leased federal airports in light of the feedback from a comprehensive Review of the Airports Building Control and Environment Protection Regulations in 2013.

 The Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss, has encouraged regulatory agencies to adopt best practice regulation standards, with a particular focus on achieving transparency, accountability, clear communications and risk-based approaches wherever possible.

Big job maybe but it would certainly set in stone that the new DAS has indeed the cojones to take on the iron ring and their 20 odd year history of industry embuggerance...

Addendum: From AA online - Skidmore to make listening a priority

MTF...