Sorry - just had a few beers and wine but I get tired of hearing about how bad CASA is why they are the baddies but seriously - whinge as much as you want - talk is cheap, it has been going on for ages and nothing changes.
Their mandate is safety, not sustainability. That is what they were tasked to do, it is in their mission statement.
Given that, they do what they are tasked to do.
Sustainability of the industry is *not* what they are asked to support. Why do we expect them to somehow look for sustainability and growth? Why are we surprised that they don't?
What we need is not to whinge about them for doing what they were tasked to do, what we need to do is lobby the government to change their mandate!
We need a governing body whose mandate is explicitly to support aviation. Whinging about them doing their job might feel good but changes nothing. We need to change their job.
We need to have a body whose mandate is not just industry safety but also industry sustainability.
That will happen when we push that with politicians through industry bodies and through representations to our local members and senators.
A safe AND viable industry will be good for our economy. Change the CASA mission rather than ask why they work to uphold their mission rather than expect them to just decide to do what we want. They are doing their job. It is the job requested that is wrong.
Going to bed now... probably will regret posting tomorrow...
