Skidmore's legacy was to restructure CASA with 3 main divisions, Aviation Group, Sustainability Group and Stakeholder Engagement Group. What a load of crap which resulted in 800 CASA staff now having about 25% of staff with an actual aviation background. How is 'stakeholder engagement' and 'sustainability' deemed far more important (do these titles even exist in any other organisation - sounds more like damage control and spin doctoring rather than doing the job right not requiring this).
The Government should have enforced the organisation structure recommended in the ASR Report, which was a lot different than the Skidmore model. Or CASA should have just used the ICAO model which is simply, Director, Operations Division, Airworthiness Division (any other staff are for support in HR, Payroll and IT).
Last edited by aussiexpat; 25th Aug 2016 at 21:06.