You don’t understand your proper place, Dick.
Like every other Australian citizen, you exist to be regulated and taxed.
Think of how many punters would die in 30,000’ death plunges, but for our fearless aviation safety regulator and the thousands of pages of world-class regulations it administers.
A life is, by definition, priceless. Therefore, all safety regulations are justified and all RISs are foregone conclusions.
It must be true, because no government in recent times has done thing one to get the regulatory Frankenstein under control.
I was very disturbed to read this in AIPA’s submission to the ASSR:
From our viewpoint, blaming the delay in implementation of Part 61 on the industry was indicative of an unacceptable regulatory arrogance. The problem was clearly one of inadequate change management by CASA. AIPA often is forced to take CASA to task about poor regulatory consultation due to a persistent absence of supporting GM/AMC documentation, insufficient consultation time and notification periods combined with excessive amount of documents required to be reviewed prior to working group meetings and inadequate allocations of time at meetings to properly review not only the draft legislation but how it will work in practice. We are sympathetic to the CASA staff who appear to be faced with multiple complex tasks and unbending deadlines and even to CASA managers who find themselves in a political corner to roll out the new rules, but in the end the responsibility for effective change management rest with CASA management.
The current prospect of continuously rolling out new rules to overwhelmed industry stakeholders and inspectors alike must be increasing the risk profile of the industry – and what starts out as compliance and financial risk has a habit of morphing into safety risk!
It is from this kind of lunatic fringe that CASA is, fortunately, protecting us.
Be thankful, Dick. Think how much safer you and everyone else will be, once your CJ3 is fitted with ADS-B.