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Is the Westminster system the problem?

Old 27th Nov 2020, 06:04
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Is the Westminster system the problem?

They do seem to go to the same finishing school.


This is the official trailer for the 2021 full feature length release "the UNCivil Aviation Authority" - a powerful story of pilots fighting for their survival against the monopoly organization giving them their licences. The story of the UK CAA flagrantly violation basic human rights and knowingly prosecuting pilots with illegal methods, whereby the ends justify any means. The NATS National Air Traffic Service - a private entity owned by airlines who do not care for small aviation - get the CAA to do whatever they want.

Private and commercial pilots in the United Kingdom have had sinister experiences, with their flying licenses summarily taken away, by untrained "investigators" operating illegally as investigator, prosecutor, judge and jury, all in one. Untrained individuals, often not pilots, judge on the "fitness" of pilots with experience levels far eclipsing their own, using illegal and controversial investigation methods and routinely handing out disproportionate sentences whilst drunk on their unlimited power. Pilots are not presumed innocent as every citizen should be, but routinely misled and coerced to incriminate themselves and face a kangaroo court. Of course, infringements must not happen but too many infringements that are heavy handedly prosecuted, are actually not infringements, and many who are talking to and complying with controllers, are erroneously prosecuted.

Because the CAA is the one and only, all-powerful regulator who has unbridled power over pilots and aviation businesses it grants licences to operate, and because the CAA is not accountable to anyone, pilots and maintenance engineers and even CAA insiders who are worried about safety are afraid to challenge the injustices perpetrated by the CAA. The CAA does like the big money offered by airlines who already own NATS and grab airspace where they like - we refer to the Lord Kirkhope Enquiry on Lower Airspace.

There is no legal recourse for pilots whatsoever ... and uniquely and strangely, the CAA is the only organisation in the UK which does not offer basic human rights of presumption of innocence, right to a fair trial or right of appeal that must be there by law and are for all people.

The fear of the all-powerful CAA has kept many individual injustices hidden for many years, and that and the absence of legal recourse for victims has in fact emboldened the CAA to commit even more injustices, knowingly encouraged by CAA leadership.

This is the story of how the universal justification of "safety in the air" the CAA abuses, is achieving the very opposite, forcing many pilots to switch off safety devices giving their position in the air.

The CAA is not regulated and does not keep to the Regulator's code of Conduct .. the CAA is not accountable to anyone, has exempted itself from National Audit Office oversight, does not react to the Department of Transport, nor to a group of hundreds of Members of Parliament from all political parties. General Aviation is a £ 3 billion business, from which crucially, from grassroots level, pilots and engineers are grown to make the future of aviation business succeed, to carry on the great aviation brands of Rolls-Royce, British Aerospace, Airbus and carry on British aviation successes like for instance Spitfire, Sea Harriers, Tempests. The injustices are so widespread and endemic, and have persisted for so long, that the majority of the 40,000 pilots and thousands of engineers and engineering firms, have now en masse lost confidence in the CAA and dark clouds have overcast the skies of Britain. The documentary follows all developments realtime for the next year, including the formal complaint on behalf of a 30 strong group of pilots brave enough to stand up with the Human Rights Watchdog, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and their individual cases they are taking to Court.

Will the CAA and its new head, Stephen Hillier, formerly the head of the UK's Royal Air Force change their ways and start respecting pilots and their human rights and treat them fairly ? Watch the UNCivil Aviation Authority - release 2021

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BPe...6_lzQ30-G/view

The above link is to a 81 page complaint made to the UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission regarding Human Rights violations against multiple individuals by the Civil Aviation Authority. Glen's problem rewrit. The story of Anthony Parkinson, ex Red Arrow, Eurofighter, and Spitfire display pilot beginning page 19 is emblematic of our regulator if Glen's story is anything to go by.
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Old 27th Nov 2020, 07:51
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Nothing to do with the "Westminster system".

Try private flying in China, Thailand or Myanmar.
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Old 27th Nov 2020, 07:55
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Well that’s disturbing.

I guess taking into account the small area of airspace, and the large amount of traffic (airline) that takes place over there, the ultimate goal for them would be to eliminate the entirety of GA. Weekend warriors are not welcome. Would the CAA stump up roadshows around their land educating GA pilots on how to be safer?

While GA is fading away here, and there are many other factors at play making that happen, not solely CASA. Your local greedy council and developers have a lot to answer for.

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Old 27th Nov 2020, 08:41
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And whom was the person that said UK airspace was busy ?



https://nats.aero/blog/2014/11/take-...tour-uk-skies/

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Old 27th Nov 2020, 10:09
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It's not the Westminster system at all; it's a system all of the UK CAA's own making. And it's the people, not the system, that's the problem.

Re the NATS Promo video; the accompanying piece of guff says, quite early on;
"We are therefore very excited....".
Whenever an organisation says it is "excited" by something it has just done, you know immediately that the bull**** you about to read has been concocted by a PR agency, paid for from public funds for the gratification of the organisation's management.

Reverting to the UK CAA; I can attest that the problem is not confined to aircrew regulation. In the context of two airworthiness-related approvals I was up against appallingly bad Surveyors. One had been sacked from 3 middle-management roles, and enquiries revealed that in each case it was a combination of ignorance, incompetence and inability to interact with people above, below and at the same level as him. He returned documentation late, with scribbled, semi-illegible notes demanding changes; by the 4th reiteration the demands for change concerned stuff he had previously told us to put in. We stayed with it for a while hoping that simply doing what he wanted would be the quickest way. But when his demands included reverting to BCAR regs enough was enough. We complained formally to the CAA and he was replaced.

The other rogue Surveyor had come to the CAA from a senior management position with an airline MRO; his understanding of the EASA regulations was sketchy, but this didn't stop him from making rules up as he went along, and threatening a Finding if we stuck to the correct rule. He was - and remains - an untrustworthy liar who would affect great bonhomie on site and then screw you royally when he got back to his office.

It was a truism 10 years ago that the CAA was the last refuge for the unemployable, at least as far as engineering is concerned, and from what I see and hear it's still true now. There were many excellent people there at one time, but they all left the building a long time ago.

CAA to regain full control of Civil Aviation regulation in the UK? Don't make me laugh; I might wet myself. They couldn't run a Flying Club.

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Old 27th Nov 2020, 12:13
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Who produced this "film"?

It seems like a set of lunatic accusations reading the OP - you can't say the CAA is "above the law" when the UK govt itself is dragged through the Courts on a regular basis - the Home Office seem to be there permanently

Sounds lie a bunch of conspiracy theorists to me (and before you shout I'm on record as supporting Glen in Australia)
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