Truss: Aviation Safety Regulation Review

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Of lessons learnt & promptly forgotten.

Top stuff Thorny a fascinating tale that fortunately did not end in tragedy - perhaps more to do with the almost bullet-proof DC-9 airframe than anything else.

The DC 9 incident rang the warning bells, very loudly. TAA acted, promptly and correctly, but the regulator's official slipped away unscathed.

Heard whispers around the traps that one of the major suspected causal factors for the AirNorth Brasilia accident was just such an overzealous FOI - who strongly encouraged (enforced) Check & Trainers conduct instantaneous (chopped power lever) for all V1 cuts & EFATO. Now it may be just whispers but interestingly enough this FOI at the time - after apparently some higher profile operators complaints - was subsequently dispatched to some pencil pushing slot somewhere down near YMML only to re-emerge as a regular caricature in the Bankstown chronicles...all rumour & innuendo mind..

On a less serious tale I remember that many moons ago another overzealous FF official - while conducting a CP review in CM's (Alligator Airways) beloved Beaver floatplane - BASR wanted to conduct a x-wind landing on Lake Kununurra...WTF Subsequently the Beaver ended up upside down - oh how embarrassing... Hmm...wonder where that bloke ended up??

Soteria - Well done Terry!! Only 4 years AFTER the PelAir clusterf#ck

Yep absolutely disgusting... Especially considering that by August 2010 the white hats had already drafted a version of that amendment and ironically it had already been drafted ready to sign by McComic.. See here - Part One- The inconvenience of facts & timelines??

On a more positive note M&M's department have finally deigned to publish the IOS responses to the original Forsyth report - you know the one we were all asked to contribute to by the end of June '14...:

Public and Industry Comments on the Aviation Safety Regulation Review Report

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Public and Industry comments made on the Aviation Safety Regulation Review Report are set out below, except for comments that were submitted to the Department as confidential comments, and comments that the Department has elected to withhold on the basis that they contain significant personal, sensitive, and/or potentially defamatory information. Published comments have been redacted in some cases to remove personal or sensitive information (such as personal addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, licence or membership numbers, and scanned signatures).
The Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development is not responsible for the content of these comments, which remains the responsibility of the original authors, and comments do not represent the views of the Department. To the extent permitted by law, the Commonwealth disclaims liability to any person or organisation in respect of anything done, or omitted to be done, in reliance upon information contained in any of the comments.
The Government received 21 confidential comments.

Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia LTD (AAAA)PDF: 895 KB / Aero Enterprise Australia Pty LtdPDF: 89 KB / Air Sport Australia ConfederationPDF: 90 KB / Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia (AOPA)PDF: 2014 KB / Alan Baskett PDF: 60 KB / Archerfield Airport Chamber of Commerce Inc PDF: 25 KB / Arkaroola Air Services PDF: 177 KB / Australasian Society of Aerospace MedicinePDF: 189 KB/ Australian Airports Association (AAA)PDF: 238 KB / Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA)PDF: 301 KB / Australian Aviation Business Association Inc (AABA)PDF: 14 KB / Australian Certified UAV Operators INC (ACUO)PDF: 1011 KB / Australian Federation of Air PilotsPDF: 190 KB / Australian Mooney Pilots Association LtdPDF: 125 KB / Australian Sport Rotorcraft AssociationPDF: 67 KB / Australian Warbirds Association LtdPDF: 187 KB / Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association Inc (AMROBA)PDF: 245 KB / Avlaw Pty LtdPDF: 174 KB / Bob WarnPDF: 19 KB / Bock ConsultingPDF: 93 KB/ Borgelt InstrumentsPDF: 14 KB / Chris ReillyPDF: 14 KB / Dan TylerPDF: 271 KB / David KleinPDF: 13 KB / Douglas Aircraft Sales Pty LtdPDF: 26 KB / Douglas StottPDF: 10 KB / Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome Committee IncPDF: 110 KB / Execujet Australia Pty LtdPDF: 24 KB / Jim McDowellPDF: 34 KB / Karen CaseyPDF: 59 KB / Michael WatsonPDF: 28 KB / National Business Aviation AssociationPDF: 72 KB / Neil KellerPDF: 44 KB / Neill RearPDF: 27 KB / Owen BrayPDF: 26 KB / ProAviationPDF: 108 KB / Professional Aviators Investigative NetworkPDF: 111 KB / Recreational Aviation Australia IncPDF: 1192 KB / Regional Aviation Association of AustraliaPDF: 396 KB / Regional Express Group (Rex)PDF: 291 KB / Richard GreenPDF: 24 KB / Riverina Air Motive Pty LtdPDF: 224 KB / Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of AustraliaPDF: 147 KB / Royal Victorian Aero ClubPDF: 143 KB / Sydney Airport Corporation LimitedPDF: 2819 KB / The Gliding Federation of Australia IncPDF: 129 KB / UAS InternationalPDF: 172 KB / William HamiltonPDF: 247 KB

WOW a veritable list of 'who's who' in Australian aviation circles... Take a bow IOS but remember the jobs not done yet...

I'll be back...

Ps My nomination for the IOS award for excellence (which has a 1st prize of a year's supply of Tim Tams..) in response to the Reverend Forsyth's report has to go to Nathan Safe & crew at AIPA- TOP STUFF!

From cover letter:

AIPA REVIEW OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AVIATION SAFETY REGULATORY REVIEW PANEL

The Australian and International Pilots’ Association (AIPA) is grateful for the opportunity to supplement our submission to the Aviation Safety Regulation Review (ASRR) by commenting on the recommendations of the Panel. We congratulate them on achieving what was a difficult and complex task.

From the outset, AIPA is most concerned that there may be a number of senior members of the Executive who consider the ASRR process to be an irrelevant political process that has little or no import for how aviation safety is managed in Australia. The recent actions taken by CASA to unwind Australia’s Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) policy position, one of the most enlightened in world aviation in regard to permitting pilots to fly in commercial service despite having an identified CVD, indicate a serious disregard not only for their relationship with the industry at large but also for the concept of evidence-based safety.

As the largest Association of professional airline pilots in Australia representing over 2,300 professional airline transport category flight crew and as a key member of the International Federation of Airline Pilot Associations (IFALPA) which represents over 100,000 pilots in 100 countries, AIPA wishes to make it very clear to you that the achievement of continuing high levels of aviation safety in Australia will only come about when the relevant government agencies act credibly and with integrity in all of their activities. They must "walk their own talk" and be model aviation citizens – they must lead by example rather than rule by coercion.

Our membership places a very strong expectation of rational, risk and evidence-based safety behaviour on our government agencies and we are all looking to you to affect serious change in the administration of aviation safety in Australia.

We therefore offer the following commentary on the Recommendations made by the ASRR Panel in the interests of furthering those expectations.