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Old 8th Jan 2017, 06:29
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Lead Balloon
 
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You're either very new to all this or deeply entrenched in the government spin machine.

Let's analyse just one sentence from the government's response to the ASRR report (with my bolding):
Australia's aviation safety regulatory approach should continue to reflect the level of risk attached to the different types of aviation operations and the likelihood and consequences of aviation safety accidents and incidents.
That statement implicitly asserts as true that which is demonstrably untrue.

If Australia's aviation safety regulatory approach was in fact based on an objective assessment of absolute and comparative risk, there would be far more regulations about and focus on the service of ham sandwiches and orange juice to the flight crews of RPT aircraft, and no regulations about or focus upon colour vision deficiency of the flight crews of RPT aircraft. Yet - surprise, surprise - it's the other way around. Why? Because the empty rhetoric is just that.

CASA and contemporary governments aren't interested in objective facts and risks. They are interested in the public's perception of safety.
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