AHIA Quarterly Report - Jan to Mar '15.
It is a badly kept secret that the AHIA has decided to form a working group to investigate further the problems that are occurring as CASR Part 61 - Flight Crew Licensing is being finalised. Recently we received the revised costs of CASA services. CASA has suggested the revised Part 61 - Manual of Standards will be released; hopefully by July 2015.
Once this has been done we can obtain a clearer picture of what the enormous changes mean in dollar terms, and then ask the Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss (our Aviation Minister), how the safety case studies and their cost benefit analysis (a government requirement) were determined.
Our main gripe is that unless Part 61 can be made to work; then all the other 'advanced' legislation coming into being and resting on the foundation created by Part 61 will probably need extensive redrafting or exemptions (instruments) to keep the industry moving forward.
Understandably, we are attracting a lot of political, media (and legal) attention; however, at this stage our deliberations are confidential.
In the meantime, our latest AHIA Quarterly Report ending 31 March 2015 is available as a pdf from
[email protected]. Readers can then see some of the emerging issues and long term predictions. The statement from the head of EASA in late 2014 indicates their recommendation advising against the tsunami of new regulations flowing from national regulatory reform programmers. EASA considers their efforts to be counter productive as a safety enhancement tool.
AHIA Members will be getting regular bulletins on our work in progress. Please join us if you can as we need to support our overworked volunteers.
AHIA, Australian Helicopter Industry Association
AHIA Regulatory Review Coordinator -
[email protected].