Last election, Truss promised to 'amend the Civil Aviation Act' to benefit industry etc.
What did he do? He amended the 'Civil Aviation Act': the TOTAL amendment was to change the number of Board members from 4 to 6.
Check it out yourself.
Boyd apparently said in Tamworth that he would issue exemptions to the industry for non carriage of ADSB. I am only going on what has been posted here in other threads I might add so I could be wrong and he may not have said that he would give exemptions at all.
But, how could a poster on Prune be wrong?
Boyd does not have that authority under the CAA. He could direct the Director but if the Director did not agree and heaven forbid something was to happen given Air Services' contention that non carriage of ADSB constituted an unacceptable safety risk under their SMS, then the CASA chairman and most probably the rest of the Board if they went along with him would be personally culpable.
Boyd now says the ADSB mandate cannot be moved?
I wonder why?
Ministers regardless of the old man Truss or the Hong Kong bar assistant or the new guy, none have and none will change the CAA becasue they did not and do not want to carry the can if the whole thing goes pear shaped and there is an accident.
Same for the other side of politics. Just watch them all, including the CASA board, crab step away from any promise they make to see smiling faces at a meeting.