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Submitted to the;

The Hon Paul Fletcher MP
Minister for Major Projects, Territories and Local Government
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia.

The Hon Darren Chester MP
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia.

The 94,000+ Users of the Aviation Advertiser Network


Dear Minister Fletcher and Chester,

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY - DAS, MR MARK SKIDMORE - AOPA RESIGNATION

Aviation Advertiser is Australia’s largest online aircraft marketplace and has been operating since 2008. Our digital services are used by over 94,000+ persons across Australia and New Zealand. We provide the Australian aviation industry with aircraft sales, marketing and advertising services.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) have recently furnished you with a letter, outlining its ‘Project Eureka’ and the 'need for bold and innovative policy reform’ if aviation in this country is to survive.

Aviation Advertiser endorses the AOPA Project Eureka paper and stands with the AOPA Board and its membership in ensuring that the Federal Government is held to account.

Through the course of normal business, Aviation Advertiser is in direct regular communication with a broad spectrum of aviation users. Students, recreational, private and commercial pilots, private and commercial aircraft owners and aviation businesses.

All of whom are desperately concerned for the future of aviation in Australia.

The Australian aviation industry has been failed by successive Labour and Liberal governments and Ministers whom have lacked a mature and developed understanding of the aviation system as a whole. Ministers and advisors whom have lacked an appreciation and recognition for the value of small to medium sized aviation enterprise.

I have now worked as part of the aviation industry long enough to see Ministers come and go. Ministers whom hide behind white paper studies, who refuse to give direct answers and who fail to provide informed policy direction.

The hard working men and women in the aviation industry in this country deserve better.

I urge you both as Ministers to stand with AOPA and with the Australian aviation industry at this time. I would like to encourage you both to work with industry in establishing an independent industry taskforce, with the purpose and scope to identify and quantify the issues affecting our industry. To take the findings of this taskforce and implement responsible and appropriate policy, so as to create an environment for opportunity and growth.

If you would like discuss any of the above, please feel free to contact me.

Best regards,

BENJAMIN MORGAN
Chief Executive - Aviation Advertiser Digital Group

[Mr Approach]

Being a member of one organisation which is being criticised by another organisation of which you are a member is an ethical nonsense and untenable. A lowly member might ignore the obvious conflict of interest but if you are the CEO of one of those organisations you cannot. The CEO of CASA has had to decide where his allegiance lies as it cannot be in both places at the same time.

[Horatio Leafblower]

How can you endorse project Eureka?

Privatise Airservices? Yeah right. Cancel SIDS now that so many people have spent the money? Really?

On this however:

I would like to encourage you both to work with industry in establishing an independent industry taskforce, with the purpose and scope to identify and quantify the issues affecting our industry. To take the findings of this taskforce and implement responsible and appropriate policy, so as to create an environment for opportunity and growth.

...you have my full support.

[cattletruck]

As I said before, yer best bet would be to start again...from 1945.

[Checklist Charlie]

Forget 1945, go back to the start and rewrite the whole Civil Aviation Act.

CC

[aroa]

(crashed on) approach..yes how terrible and unethical....

Its dreadful that CAsA which continues to destroy GA doesnt have a CEO that wishes to change that and promote and allow the industry to survive. And being just a member of AOPA which does wish to promote and allow GA to survive obviously isnt worth listening to, or being involved with, because AOPA's aims conflict with the CAsA agenda.

Awful, just awful. !

And ethics and honesty and fair dealing and not wasting taxpayers money etc (crap) etc are all part of the CAsA joke code of conduct that we know that most CAsA persons dont give a rats rectum about.

Or the Mission Statement. Or the Governments 10 pt requirements for new regulation.

And that's why GA in Oz is the dire straights it is today.

All thanks to CAsA, and all allowed by disinterested/ ignorant politicians and ministers.

[Old Akro]

The comments about one body knocking another are, frankly naive.

One of the weaknesses of the Australian bureaucratic system is that it only deals with peak bodies (unless you have Dick Smith's profile). And it only likes dealing with one peak body per interest group. So, to be heard, you kind of need to create differentiation with current ones.

And its hard to argue against the fact that the AOPA has deserted GA - or at least IFR and business / private aviation.

There is plenty of evidence.

Look at the way they sold out IFR for ADS-B
Or go to its website and look for recent Canberra submissions
Or just look at its board and see how many live in Sydner and / or have been there for a million years - oops you can't because they took it off the website.
Or you can look at the Annual Report for a sense of what they are doing - oops, that's gone from the website too (is that even legal?).


The more people that make noise the better.