Forsyth Review - Dead In The Water.
With the appointment of a new Minister responsible for aviation and a forthcoming Federal election, I think we can give the Forsyth review, and its conclusions and recommendations in toto, the last rights.
The bureaucrats have won. They have waited out the starry eyed idealists who thought that truth is followed by justice and equity. The passage of time gradually washes away the hard edged conclusions and recommendations of the Forsyth Review. To put that another way Forsyth is old news. There is a different Minister in Canberra now and CASA is positioning itself as a new beast. Of course that is all smoke and mirrors. Cultural change is notoriously hard at best.. In due course the same bureaucrats will wreak their revenge on those who were unwise enough to make submissions to the review.
The next question is what will be CASAs next move to complete the embuggerance of everything but military and large commercial RPT aviation? My guess from trying to read the part 91 rules is that these will finish off GA since virtually any incident, let alone accident, has been criminalised.
The net result of that will be the impossibility of developing a genuine safety culture anywhere in GA in favour of developing a backside covering culture instead. The result of that is going to be higher accident and incident rates since "learning from mistakes" becomes impossible in a punitive culture.