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Old 18th Nov 2014, 14:55
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tecman
 
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Your embarrassment might be salved if you took a bit of time to understand the regulatory and administration environments under which the vast majority of Australian Jabirus are flown. The LSA sector has effectively been outsourced to RA Aus, with the result that CASA probably has few in-house statistics on non-VH-registered aircraft. The RA Aus track record has been poor in a number of areas and CASA have recently insisted on the game being lifted.

As a GA pilot and RA Aus member, I have long been critical of the lack of a publicly accessible incident/accident database for LSAs. The Jabiru engine problems have been an open secret in the industry for a long time, but no comparative failure rate statistics have been available, in part (I'm told) because of RA Aus concerns about their legal position.

Old socialist that I am, I believe that outsourcing the LSA administration has turned out to be a bad idea; that a private company has been at best tardy in addressing fundamental safety issues; and that in this case CASA acted correctly in the face of a growing scandal.
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