On 5 Nov ’15, AHIA President, Peter Crook, announced enough is enough.
AHIA strongly protests CASA’s mismanaged regulatory reform process!
From: The President AHIA.
To: Helicopter Industry Colleagues,
It is time to take a stand against the unfair treatment of our industry by the Regulator and stop the distraction caused by the mismanaged regulatory reform process. To achieve this, we need to unite. We have been working hard to protect the industry's existence but it seems CASA is not listening, heeding our suggestions or accepting our offers of assistance.
Attached for your information is a Media Release prepared by the AHIA in support of our Industry. Excerpts of this release were published in The Australian, Friday 6 November 2015, together with comments from other associations including the RAAA and AAAA and the TAAAF (The Australian Aviation Associations Forum), of which the AHIA is a member.
The Aviation Industry has been overburdened with regulatory change and is crippled by the inability of the Regulator to process applications in a timely and proper manner. Some companies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with still no end in sight.
It’s time for us all to protest by withdrawing from the application process for Parts 142 and 145 particularly, and Part 141 if this is also a problem. If the industry removes their applications as a protest, it will do two things; firstly show CASA we are united as an industry and object to the treatment we are receiving and do not intend participating in the conversion process and secondly; save you considerable time, effort and money that is going nowhere! We suggest you use our template to send a letter to CASA to withdraw your applications and conserve your resources for the day CASA eventually gets its house in order. We cannot continue, it’s time to act!
Could you review the template, copy and paste the relevant information, pertaining to your operation, onto your letterhead and forward to CASA.
All associations, individually and through the TAAAF have offered expertise from within their individual sectors of the industry to assist with the regulatory change processes. Our proposed action should accelerate that process for the benefit of CASA and the Industry.
Whether you are a member of AHIA or not, it is in your interest to support this initiative for the good of a united industry.
Please call me, 0407 638 811, or Ray Cronin, 0419 962 373, if you have any questions.
Regards, Peter Crook, President, Australian Helicopter Industry Association.
Mob: 0407 638 811 Email: president at austhia dot com.