Tamworth industry rally - friday 6 may 2016
Attendee, meeting comment
Age of participants at Tamworth was my first thought, being in my 70s, induces the thought that younger aviators have little idea of what a buzz it used to be. A growing, thriving element of quintessential Australian life. A careful Google Earth study of some more out of the way but popular destinations, even now, will reveal many abandoned airstrips. As an airport and aircraft owner with flying school, charters and RPT I started writing to my my MP, about 30 years ago, how government, i.e. CAA /CASA was going to throttle GA. Now it's worse and much worse.
In regard to costs, most of the extra costs, be it airport rents or CASA and ASA fees and charges can be sheeted home to Can'tberra 'user pays', user pays for what ever we make the user use. Fees for all sorts of totally unnecessary procedures and permits. ASICs, AVMED and its discredited aviation medicals now shown by surveys, as in the US, to be a waste of time. Good enough car driver standard for RAAus, good enough to delete aviation medicals for nearly all flying in the US. But here in Bureacratalia? No, no no, 400,000 Can'tberrans must be fed and paid homage.
We are a far more affluent society than we were in the 60s and 70s, GA can be an industry many times grown, there's just enough left of GA to build upon if we can persuade our Parliament to remove the chocks and tie downs.
We need more meetings, SY first being the most central and easiest to get to. Hats off to Ben, but we can do better, more media, show the unity by introducing the industry group leaders. Get all groups to back a simple message. CASA to be replaced with a Civil Aviation Division under Transport. Everything else follows, nothing will change unless there is a legislated model that works. The present independent model has failed by any measure.
In regard to costs, most of the extra costs, be it airport rents or CASA and ASA fees and charges can be sheeted home to Can'tberra 'user pays', user pays for what ever we make the user use. Fees for all sorts of totally unnecessary procedures and permits. ASICs, AVMED and its discredited aviation medicals now shown by surveys, as in the US, to be a waste of time. Good enough car driver standard for RAAus, good enough to delete aviation medicals for nearly all flying in the US. But here in Bureacratalia? No, no no, 400,000 Can'tberrans must be fed and paid homage.
We are a far more affluent society than we were in the 60s and 70s, GA can be an industry many times grown, there's just enough left of GA to build upon if we can persuade our Parliament to remove the chocks and tie downs.
We need more meetings, SY first being the most central and easiest to get to. Hats off to Ben, but we can do better, more media, show the unity by introducing the industry group leaders. Get all groups to back a simple message. CASA to be replaced with a Civil Aviation Division under Transport. Everything else follows, nothing will change unless there is a legislated model that works. The present independent model has failed by any measure.
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14th April 2016
The Hon Barnaby Joyce
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources
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.
Mr Jeff Boyd
Chairman of the Board, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
GPO Box 2005
Canberra ACT 2601
The 94,000+ Users of the Aviation Advertiser Network
Dear Ministers & Chairman,
FOLLOW UP RESPONSE – INVITATION TO MEET IN CANBERRA 24TH MAY 2016.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to each of you with regard to your attendance at the Aviation Rally I organised on Friday 6th May 2016 at Tamworth Regional Airport. I understand that all of you are busy, and I do appreciate your taking the time for this important event.
Upfront, I would like to convey my sincere apology, with regard to the rushed commencement of proceedings, during which I did not clearly introduce the attending Ministers and Chairman appropriately. This was certainly not an intentional undertaking and I openly apologise if it has caused any offence. However I trust my mistake did not overshadow the value of the core message of the rally.
Over 400 persons were in attendance on Friday 6th May standing with the general aviation industry's leading associations and peak bodies. Many had driven and flown considerable distances, arriving from each state and territory of Australia, all undertaken at a considerable personal and business expense. Each participant a passionate supporter of aviation, desiring nothing more than a ‘fair go’ for general aviation in Australia. An industry calling on government to remove the unnecessary costs that excessive regulation imposes.
I would like to quote Mr Darren Chester MP, during his recent speech to Parliament, defending the jobs of truck owner-drivers; “Australians shouldn’t have to drive thousands of kilometres, spend thousands of dollars of their own money, to fight for their jobs. These are not paid protestors, these Australian mums and dads are passionate about their industry, passionate about the future of our nation.”.
For too long the aviation industry has been voiceless, unable to meaningfully engage with the political powers that hold direct control of the future of the general aviation industry. The rally signifies a shift for the industry, as it now seeks to actively elevate its concerns into the national debate.
Although at times heated, the rally highlighted the serious divide that exists between industry and government. It has also made clear the frustrations experienced by aviation users, unable to resolve the core issues which are damaging our general aviation industry.
From what you have each seen and heard first hand at Tamworth, the general aviation industry has declared a ‘no confidence’ position, with regard to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and its regulatory framework. Those in attendance have demonstrated that the industry can no longer endure the further inaction by the safety regulator. Thousands of aviation businesses and their employees are at risk, their futures uncertain as a result.
General aviation across Australia has been forced to accept a regulatory framework that is thoroughly incompatible with our industry, by a regulator who did not seek a consensus or mandate from its key stakeholder - the general aviation industry itself. Had an industry referendum taken place, Australia would be currently enjoying the benefits of the United States, Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR). This position is further supported by the recent submissions of both the AOPA Project Eureka and the TAAAF Policy Paper 2016.
CASA has continually ignored the qualified consensus and requests of its key stakeholders (the aviation industry) and has forced the implementation of a regulatory package which has been acknowledged worldwide as causing widespread general aviation destruction across Europe. All of which is well documented, publicly available and in plain sight.
Recently a number of senior EASA personnel have come forward, including Executive Director Mr Patrick Ky, openly acknowledging that the EASA platform is incompatible with general aviation. Communicating that its regulatory framework is ‘misguided' and that it 'must change its approach' or the destruction of general aviation will continue.
Our closest aviation partner, New Zealand (NZ), identified the EASA shortcomings early and reformed its aviation regulatory framework a number of years ago, harmonising to the US FAA FAR’s with the goal of reducing costs to industry. Subsequently, their general aviation industry have been given the tools and resources to develop and grow - now clearly leading Australia. The New Zealand aviation regulator completed its reform for a fraction of what has already been spent by CASA, which is still nowhere near completion.
Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States continues to manage the world's most successful aviation economy, developing a diverse and profitable general aviation industry based on its progressive and supportive regulatory framework.
The EASA Executive Director’s acknowledgements are amplified by the comments by CASA Chairman, Mr Jeff Boyd, during the aviation rally stating that the framework was both a ‘cluster disaster’ and ‘unworkable’ for general aviation. Going further to state that CASA was simply applying ‘bandaids’ to the structural failures and inadequacies of the EASA regulatory framework.
The attendance and participation of the CASA Chairman was both appreciated and valued and I commend him for openly facing the industry. His concise and frank acknowledgements of the incompatibility of the regulatory framework were unambiguous and supportive of the industry’s qualified call to end the failed EASA experiment and to move to the US FAA FAR’s. However, his position on ADSB simply demonstrated the disjointed and broken chain of strategy and management within CASA.
At the risk of repeating myself, the situation with ADSB implementation in Australia is a clear example of the mismanagement to which the Australian aviation industry is being subjected. Rather than simply extend the compliance date from 2017 (three years ahead of the US) to 2021 to match New Zealand, the safety regulator is seeking to create further bureaucratic processes. Further increasing the excessive costs to industry by requiring aviation users to submit an individual ADSB exemption application. This position is absurd at best.
The economic impact on the general industry is significant (CASA’s estimate is approximately $30 million). As such, it is clear that forcing the Australian general aviation industry into compliance three (3) years ahead of the world's most successful aviation economy (the US) will limit the number of compliant aircraft significantly. Additionally, increasing the divide between the regulator and aviation users across Australia.
Industry firmly believes that CASA’s fixed stance on the ADSB compliance date demonstrates their clear inflexibility in applying fair policy and shows the regulator to be manifestly unreasonable towards the needs of industry. (See Section 1.2.1 CASA Governance Framework Manual).
If I could again quote Mr Darren Chester MP, during his recent speech to Parliament, defending the jobs of truck owner-drivers; “...this is a government responding to legitimate concerns of owner drivers throughout Australia, owner drivers, who right now fear they are being forced out of work, forced out of their industry, unable to make their family commitments… as someone who has come to this place without a great interest in party political games, and I'm not someone who gets involved in the political cut and thrust, I try to build consensus, I try to get things done within my community and work with either side wherever possible. But sometimes Mr Deputy Speaker, you have to pick a side. You just have to pick a side on an issue like this and as a regional MP as the Transport Minister I am proudly on the side of small business owners.”
Minister, the Australian general aviation industry is comprised of thousands of hard working men and women, largely involved in small business, and they are going under and need your support. These people are the 'truckies of the sky', asking for nothing more than what you fought for on behalf of driver-owners recently.
CASA as a result of implementing a failing EASA framework has virtually sunk our industry in excessive compliance requirements and costs that are designed for the airlines - not small business. If we continue with the status quo, CASA will certainly bankrupt Australia’s general aviation industry.
Therefore, the general aviation industry calls on the Minister to take the necessary steps to formally direct CASA to set aside the failed EASA experiment and for the regulator to adopt the world's most successful aviation regulatory framework - the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) framework. A move which is supported by all of Australia’s general aviation industry associations, peak-bodies and leadership (see AOPA Project Eureka and TAAAF Aviation Policy 2016).
In doing so, you will be providing our industry the regulatory tools and resources it needs to recover, develop and succeed both within Australia and abroad. You will be ensuring the hard working men and women throughout aviation industry face a certain future.
With regard to the invitation made at the aviation rally to meet in Canberra on the 24th May 2016 to discuss the key issues. I would like to accept this invitation on behalf of the 94,000 users of the Aviation Advertiser network and will be accompanied by a delegation which represents Australia’s leading general aviation associations and peak-bodies.
For this meeting in Canberra to have value and to provide a productive outcome for the general aviation industry, I would like to suggest that we focus on establishing a pathway agreement, to which the industry can provide its support for the coalition at the 2nd July election. Additionally, I am respectfully requesting that Air Vice-Marshal Gary Beck AO (Retd) chair the meeting.
As you would appreciate, we have been approached by a number of political parties and representatives, with regard to seeking our endorsement and support. Team Nick Xenophon already releasing a clear position statement with regard to ADSB.
Now that the parliament has been dissolved, with the election called for 2nd July 2016, it is imperative that the general aviation industry be given an opportunity to understand the Liberal/National Coalition position and policy with regard to general aviation.
The general aviation industry will again rally in South Australia, with the event date to be announced shortly. Along with events in all other states of Australia.
Thank you again and I am looking forward to meeting in Canberra on the 24th May. I await your response.
Yours sincerely,
BENJAMIN MORGAN
Chief Executive - Aviation Advertiser Digital Group
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The Hon Barnaby Joyce
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources
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.
Mr Jeff Boyd
Chairman of the Board, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
GPO Box 2005
Canberra ACT 2601
The 94,000+ Users of the Aviation Advertiser Network
Dear Ministers & Chairman,
FOLLOW UP RESPONSE – INVITATION TO MEET IN CANBERRA 24TH MAY 2016.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to each of you with regard to your attendance at the Aviation Rally I organised on Friday 6th May 2016 at Tamworth Regional Airport. I understand that all of you are busy, and I do appreciate your taking the time for this important event.
Upfront, I would like to convey my sincere apology, with regard to the rushed commencement of proceedings, during which I did not clearly introduce the attending Ministers and Chairman appropriately. This was certainly not an intentional undertaking and I openly apologise if it has caused any offence. However I trust my mistake did not overshadow the value of the core message of the rally.
Over 400 persons were in attendance on Friday 6th May standing with the general aviation industry's leading associations and peak bodies. Many had driven and flown considerable distances, arriving from each state and territory of Australia, all undertaken at a considerable personal and business expense. Each participant a passionate supporter of aviation, desiring nothing more than a ‘fair go’ for general aviation in Australia. An industry calling on government to remove the unnecessary costs that excessive regulation imposes.
I would like to quote Mr Darren Chester MP, during his recent speech to Parliament, defending the jobs of truck owner-drivers; “Australians shouldn’t have to drive thousands of kilometres, spend thousands of dollars of their own money, to fight for their jobs. These are not paid protestors, these Australian mums and dads are passionate about their industry, passionate about the future of our nation.”.
For too long the aviation industry has been voiceless, unable to meaningfully engage with the political powers that hold direct control of the future of the general aviation industry. The rally signifies a shift for the industry, as it now seeks to actively elevate its concerns into the national debate.
Although at times heated, the rally highlighted the serious divide that exists between industry and government. It has also made clear the frustrations experienced by aviation users, unable to resolve the core issues which are damaging our general aviation industry.
From what you have each seen and heard first hand at Tamworth, the general aviation industry has declared a ‘no confidence’ position, with regard to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and its regulatory framework. Those in attendance have demonstrated that the industry can no longer endure the further inaction by the safety regulator. Thousands of aviation businesses and their employees are at risk, their futures uncertain as a result.
General aviation across Australia has been forced to accept a regulatory framework that is thoroughly incompatible with our industry, by a regulator who did not seek a consensus or mandate from its key stakeholder - the general aviation industry itself. Had an industry referendum taken place, Australia would be currently enjoying the benefits of the United States, Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR). This position is further supported by the recent submissions of both the AOPA Project Eureka and the TAAAF Policy Paper 2016.
CASA has continually ignored the qualified consensus and requests of its key stakeholders (the aviation industry) and has forced the implementation of a regulatory package which has been acknowledged worldwide as causing widespread general aviation destruction across Europe. All of which is well documented, publicly available and in plain sight.
Recently a number of senior EASA personnel have come forward, including Executive Director Mr Patrick Ky, openly acknowledging that the EASA platform is incompatible with general aviation. Communicating that its regulatory framework is ‘misguided' and that it 'must change its approach' or the destruction of general aviation will continue.
Our closest aviation partner, New Zealand (NZ), identified the EASA shortcomings early and reformed its aviation regulatory framework a number of years ago, harmonising to the US FAA FAR’s with the goal of reducing costs to industry. Subsequently, their general aviation industry have been given the tools and resources to develop and grow - now clearly leading Australia. The New Zealand aviation regulator completed its reform for a fraction of what has already been spent by CASA, which is still nowhere near completion.
Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States continues to manage the world's most successful aviation economy, developing a diverse and profitable general aviation industry based on its progressive and supportive regulatory framework.
The EASA Executive Director’s acknowledgements are amplified by the comments by CASA Chairman, Mr Jeff Boyd, during the aviation rally stating that the framework was both a ‘cluster disaster’ and ‘unworkable’ for general aviation. Going further to state that CASA was simply applying ‘bandaids’ to the structural failures and inadequacies of the EASA regulatory framework.
The attendance and participation of the CASA Chairman was both appreciated and valued and I commend him for openly facing the industry. His concise and frank acknowledgements of the incompatibility of the regulatory framework were unambiguous and supportive of the industry’s qualified call to end the failed EASA experiment and to move to the US FAA FAR’s. However, his position on ADSB simply demonstrated the disjointed and broken chain of strategy and management within CASA.
At the risk of repeating myself, the situation with ADSB implementation in Australia is a clear example of the mismanagement to which the Australian aviation industry is being subjected. Rather than simply extend the compliance date from 2017 (three years ahead of the US) to 2021 to match New Zealand, the safety regulator is seeking to create further bureaucratic processes. Further increasing the excessive costs to industry by requiring aviation users to submit an individual ADSB exemption application. This position is absurd at best.
The economic impact on the general industry is significant (CASA’s estimate is approximately $30 million). As such, it is clear that forcing the Australian general aviation industry into compliance three (3) years ahead of the world's most successful aviation economy (the US) will limit the number of compliant aircraft significantly. Additionally, increasing the divide between the regulator and aviation users across Australia.
Industry firmly believes that CASA’s fixed stance on the ADSB compliance date demonstrates their clear inflexibility in applying fair policy and shows the regulator to be manifestly unreasonable towards the needs of industry. (See Section 1.2.1 CASA Governance Framework Manual).
If I could again quote Mr Darren Chester MP, during his recent speech to Parliament, defending the jobs of truck owner-drivers; “...this is a government responding to legitimate concerns of owner drivers throughout Australia, owner drivers, who right now fear they are being forced out of work, forced out of their industry, unable to make their family commitments… as someone who has come to this place without a great interest in party political games, and I'm not someone who gets involved in the political cut and thrust, I try to build consensus, I try to get things done within my community and work with either side wherever possible. But sometimes Mr Deputy Speaker, you have to pick a side. You just have to pick a side on an issue like this and as a regional MP as the Transport Minister I am proudly on the side of small business owners.”
Minister, the Australian general aviation industry is comprised of thousands of hard working men and women, largely involved in small business, and they are going under and need your support. These people are the 'truckies of the sky', asking for nothing more than what you fought for on behalf of driver-owners recently.
CASA as a result of implementing a failing EASA framework has virtually sunk our industry in excessive compliance requirements and costs that are designed for the airlines - not small business. If we continue with the status quo, CASA will certainly bankrupt Australia’s general aviation industry.
Therefore, the general aviation industry calls on the Minister to take the necessary steps to formally direct CASA to set aside the failed EASA experiment and for the regulator to adopt the world's most successful aviation regulatory framework - the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) framework. A move which is supported by all of Australia’s general aviation industry associations, peak-bodies and leadership (see AOPA Project Eureka and TAAAF Aviation Policy 2016).
In doing so, you will be providing our industry the regulatory tools and resources it needs to recover, develop and succeed both within Australia and abroad. You will be ensuring the hard working men and women throughout aviation industry face a certain future.
With regard to the invitation made at the aviation rally to meet in Canberra on the 24th May 2016 to discuss the key issues. I would like to accept this invitation on behalf of the 94,000 users of the Aviation Advertiser network and will be accompanied by a delegation which represents Australia’s leading general aviation associations and peak-bodies.
For this meeting in Canberra to have value and to provide a productive outcome for the general aviation industry, I would like to suggest that we focus on establishing a pathway agreement, to which the industry can provide its support for the coalition at the 2nd July election. Additionally, I am respectfully requesting that Air Vice-Marshal Gary Beck AO (Retd) chair the meeting.
As you would appreciate, we have been approached by a number of political parties and representatives, with regard to seeking our endorsement and support. Team Nick Xenophon already releasing a clear position statement with regard to ADSB.
Now that the parliament has been dissolved, with the election called for 2nd July 2016, it is imperative that the general aviation industry be given an opportunity to understand the Liberal/National Coalition position and policy with regard to general aviation.
The general aviation industry will again rally in South Australia, with the event date to be announced shortly. Along with events in all other states of Australia.
Thank you again and I am looking forward to meeting in Canberra on the 24th May. I await your response.
Yours sincerely,
BENJAMIN MORGAN
Chief Executive - Aviation Advertiser Digital Group
Telephone: (02) 8215 6292
Mobile: 0415 577 724
Email: [email protected]
Mailing Address:
PO BOX 465
Edgecliff NSW 2027
Australia.
She corrected my perception of them being anti Muslim and explained it was more about halting "Government Induced Islamification into our way of life"
As the Liberal Party lurches further to the left ALA is positioning itself as the alternative conservative party.
Ben,
Well said.
As an additional comment, the Bureaucratalia CASR Part 145 is unrecognizable as EASA Part 145. Only the numbering system is "harmonised", the contents is entirely 100% "CASAised".
Byron's industry team's efforts in producing the lay drafts of CASR Part 145 bear absolutely not relation to the final outcome, as a result of the drafting instructions produced by CASA and sent to OLDP (before OPC took over). CASR Part 145 is entirely CASA's own work.
Don't blame "Government legislative policy", don't blame EASA, it is all down to the CASA "iron ring".
As a matter of interest, there is within CASA a complete "plain English" version of Part 145 that would largely fulfill the AMROBA demands that CASA comply with the Civil Aviation Act 1988, and establish Aviation Standards outside the criminal law.
Not everybody is CASA is a dud, at least one person was smart enough, and with the foresight, to realise that CASR Part 145 for GA would not work.
Tootle pip!!
Well said.
As an additional comment, the Bureaucratalia CASR Part 145 is unrecognizable as EASA Part 145. Only the numbering system is "harmonised", the contents is entirely 100% "CASAised".
Byron's industry team's efforts in producing the lay drafts of CASR Part 145 bear absolutely not relation to the final outcome, as a result of the drafting instructions produced by CASA and sent to OLDP (before OPC took over). CASR Part 145 is entirely CASA's own work.
Don't blame "Government legislative policy", don't blame EASA, it is all down to the CASA "iron ring".
As a matter of interest, there is within CASA a complete "plain English" version of Part 145 that would largely fulfill the AMROBA demands that CASA comply with the Civil Aviation Act 1988, and establish Aviation Standards outside the criminal law.
Not everybody is CASA is a dud, at least one person was smart enough, and with the foresight, to realise that CASR Part 145 for GA would not work.
Tootle pip!!
Ben support
There is now for the first time some real momentum thanks especially to Ben who has shown can be done with sufficient fortitude and reason.
The one other excellent outcome is the unity of the main GA groups. It has become now so clear, Jeff Boyd admitting publicly, as detailed in Ben's letter, that the rules are a mess. If you scripted or tried to explain the circumstances of CASA's waste and it's shocking treatment of individuals and the whole industry, including the airlines, Mr Average would be incredulous, hundreds of millions and 28 years.
We really need that unity, all egos and special interests, pet theories, sensible or not must now be put to one side.
Our message must be "change the Act" and we will not rest until we get a totally new dynamic from Government.
Ideally CASA be disbanded and folded into the Transport Ministry. Maybe a revamped Board with KPIs, a substantial reduction in CASA numbers and a biennial statement from Government on industry growth. Whatever happens the rusty old Iron Ring must be broken and buried for good.
The one other excellent outcome is the unity of the main GA groups. It has become now so clear, Jeff Boyd admitting publicly, as detailed in Ben's letter, that the rules are a mess. If you scripted or tried to explain the circumstances of CASA's waste and it's shocking treatment of individuals and the whole industry, including the airlines, Mr Average would be incredulous, hundreds of millions and 28 years.
We really need that unity, all egos and special interests, pet theories, sensible or not must now be put to one side.
Our message must be "change the Act" and we will not rest until we get a totally new dynamic from Government.
Ideally CASA be disbanded and folded into the Transport Ministry. Maybe a revamped Board with KPIs, a substantial reduction in CASA numbers and a biennial statement from Government on industry growth. Whatever happens the rusty old Iron Ring must be broken and buried for good.
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OK - so- how do we get this out into the maintstream media so Mr Average can see this as an issue?
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I looked up the CASA website and just happened to pick up the history of Part 91. It was first suggested in 1998. When I decided to see when it was promulgated I was amazed to see that it was still being worked on as of 2016. THat's 18 years. How about passing that onto the general public and your politicians. Must be some sort of a record for bureaucracy gone mad. As someone who has worked overseas for the last 7 years I am amazed to see how far CASA has gone to undo aviation in Australia...it is out of control and needs to be put back in it's place.
For those of you in business how do you cope/manage/budget for this type of uncertainty?
For those of you in business how do you cope/manage/budget for this type of uncertainty?
There's lots of that done out in the bush where the chance of being caught is close to zero. With SIDs and cables and impossible medicals, not to mention biennials there will be a lot more free flying. Too bad that so many aircraft are now less likely to see a LAME than ever before. The costs for some have become more than their aircraft are worth. People do what they can within reason, we have suffered and watched an industry go down for no reason except to keep 830 @ average $139,000 in work. What a sick joke, stuff up the rules so badly that instead of fixing the whole lot we now have Mr. Skidmore's 'Tiger Team', his words believe it or not, all 26 working full time on a bunch of fixes, exemptions and alterations. Talk about make work, truly the worst public waste of money, you could not invent this disaster and be believed.
Meetings will be planned for maximum media exposure. Speakers will not run off with pet theories, but some of the speakers will succinctly, within time limits, detail the horrors and expense of dealing with CASA. One or two will give good examples of how CASA has debased safety. How common sense has gone out the window and the taxpayer has been ripped off. Easy enough, compare with NZ. Get some one with a left hand elevator off a Wilga and show it on stage (of course it doesn't have one but they tried to hang an offence on one of their victims with that lie and came off with mud in their eyes). We have our ways and means, the beatings might stop when our morale improves.
Excellent letter! Keep the momentum going!
Now is the time to pile it on!
If Mr. Boyds alleged comments at the Tamworth rally are accurately reported, then either Mr. Boyd or AVM. Skidmore is going to have to resign in my opinion. Because AVM. Skidmore, by resigning from AOPA and allegedly being intransigent on ADS-B, has hitched his wagon to the CASA status quo and Boyd appears to have said that CASA has a case to answer. They both can't be right.
My guess is that Mrdak and his minion Carmody are going to have to decide very shortly if CASA is worth supporting in its current form because the last thing politicians need is an angry pressure group of GA aviators approaching an election and if we do things right they will blame CASA for their electoral problems. What we need to do is promising to make the temperature hotter right up till election day!
Now is the time to pile it on!
If Mr. Boyds alleged comments at the Tamworth rally are accurately reported, then either Mr. Boyd or AVM. Skidmore is going to have to resign in my opinion. Because AVM. Skidmore, by resigning from AOPA and allegedly being intransigent on ADS-B, has hitched his wagon to the CASA status quo and Boyd appears to have said that CASA has a case to answer. They both can't be right.
My guess is that Mrdak and his minion Carmody are going to have to decide very shortly if CASA is worth supporting in its current form because the last thing politicians need is an angry pressure group of GA aviators approaching an election and if we do things right they will blame CASA for their electoral problems. What we need to do is promising to make the temperature hotter right up till election day!
Jeff Boyd is a straight talker and knows of what he talks. From an Article in Australian Aviation dated 7 December 2015:
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Boyd, who founded Brindabella Airlines and was also previously chairman of the Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA), acknowledged the implementation of CASA’s Part 61 licensing regulations has been a “debacle”.
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Boyd said the Part 61 regulations were written up without adequate communication from industry and he lobbied against their introduction before he joined the CASA board.
“I was very much involved in it not being brought out when I was on the industry side,” Boyd said.
“We knew Part 61 was never going to work. It got put in a drawer for 12 months and instead of being reworked and rejigged unfortunately the very last day that our previous CEO was in the organisation he promulgated Part 61 as it was 12 months previously.
“The results have been horrendous for the organisation and for industry. It’s a debacle.”
Boyd, who founded Brindabella Airlines and was also previously chairman of the Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA), acknowledged the implementation of CASA’s Part 61 licensing regulations has been a “debacle”.
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Boyd said the Part 61 regulations were written up without adequate communication from industry and he lobbied against their introduction before he joined the CASA board.
“I was very much involved in it not being brought out when I was on the industry side,” Boyd said.
“We knew Part 61 was never going to work. It got put in a drawer for 12 months and instead of being reworked and rejigged unfortunately the very last day that our previous CEO was in the organisation he promulgated Part 61 as it was 12 months previously.
“The results have been horrendous for the organisation and for industry. It’s a debacle.”
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Message to the mainstream media should be along the lines that CASA (read government) are destroying an industry and not only will this lead to increase in unemployment, if nothing is done the likes of the RFDS / Air Ambulunce / Careflight etc will be in danger as there will be no left to maintain or fly these aircraft/ helicopters. The mainstream media will run headlines saying peoples lives (in particular in the outback ) are at risk due to the regulator/ government actions.
I always ponder what bull**** tokenistic response these issues might raise.
...just look at what public pressure over Uber has done for the Taxi industry
...just look at what public pressure over Uber has done for the Taxi industry
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Message to the mainstream media should be along the lines that CASA (read government) are destroying an industry and not only will this lead to increase in unemployment, if nothing is done the likes of the RFDS / Air Ambulunce / Careflight etc will be in danger as there will be no left to maintain or fly these aircraft/ helicopters. The mainstream media will run headlines saying peoples lives (in particular in the outback ) are at risk due to the regulator/ government actions.
Recently a bunch of pollies wanted a charter out of Bundaberg and found to their consternation there wasn't a charter company. This in a town that has grown continuously over the years and once had a tower. Surely that should have been a wake up call.
The service refusal idea probably wouldn't work because there are too many Pinkys and Bings out there.
If the above produces no result then refuse to carry politicians of all stripes on small planes to isolated places where there is no airline service. That should get media attention and certainly the pollies attention.
Recently a bunch of pollies wanted a charter out of Bundaberg and found to their consternation there wasn't a charter company. This in a town that has grown continuously over the years and once had a tower. Surely that should have been a wake up call.
The service refusal idea probably wouldn't work because there are too many Pinkys and Bings out there.
Recently a bunch of pollies wanted a charter out of Bundaberg and found to their consternation there wasn't a charter company. This in a town that has grown continuously over the years and once had a tower. Surely that should have been a wake up call.
The service refusal idea probably wouldn't work because there are too many Pinkys and Bings out there.
Truth is we all have some fault if you you want to study history to inform the current debate. We all have basked in some flying glory and never really questioned the impositions, like special aviation medicals, which separated us from ordinary beings. Own up its just human nature. Like the notion that we are given 'privileges' with our licences, we forgot to be a free people with rights to pursue happiness. Everyone loves a privilege so we went along with this illusion, a concept that we are still lumbered with, leftover from the medieval stricture that the Crown has all rights and dispenses privileges to it's subjects. The Crown, in law, still owns all land in Australia which you are allowed to 'hold freely', hence power to big brother.
The USA overthrew these stultifying notions two hundred years ago, we need some of that burning ambition for freedom, not for personal gratification but for the prosperity of the nation.
The requirements for aviation medicals is an excellent case in point. There is no actual evidence for the safety of flight being enhanced, car driver medicals has been satisfactory for RAAus for twenty years, and for road users. The US has, recently, in spite of the vested interests of a powerful aviation medicine lobby, just about deleted the requirement for nearly all private flying.
What do we do? Support anyone who is trying for reform, put to your organisation that AOPA, AMROBA, TAAAF, RAAus, Ben Morgan are to be supported in the push for a new form of aviation regulation, deregulation with simple rules. Write, ring email MPs, media and get to meetings. We mean change to the Civil Aviation Act, a new model to replace the failed independent Commonwealth Corporate body of CASA. Enough, 830 average $139,000 pa working a 7 1/2 hour day not subject to the Public Service rules. Chairman Jeff Boyd tells us that the rules are a mess, after 28 years still not finished, Mark Skidmore's "Tiger Team", 26 employed on a make work program to fix what he said was a model rule set! There'd be gales of laughter if it wasn't killing an industry with taxpayer funds and fees gouged from GA.
You need an enquiry headed by someone who knows aviation but isn't tied to it. Glenn Stevens would be an excellent choice. Finished his gig at the Reserve Bank and drives his own Seneca
Ozbusdriver, the last thing we need as another enquiry
Mate, pay attention. We've just finished one and the government just won't even see to implementing the pretty soft recommendations that it has itself agreed to.
We are drowning in enquiries, we've had enquiries for more than twenty years. I'm sure private pilot Glen would like a rest from Government work, and does not need the money or notoriety from a stint as the Chairman of The Final GA Enquiry. Final because there will be nothing left to enquire about.
By the way, 'independent' Canberra officials might just be too independent. Maybe it's been too easy to accept big fees from government to conduct yet another enquiry. What is their incentive to bring to a conclusion the bleeding obvious?
Responsibility must be sheeted home to our Parliament, the independent umpire is a myth, I'm up to here with Ombudspeople and all the other hangeroners from Canberra. Did you know its now nearly 400,000 in the free world's most socialist super planned city of little free enterprise and almost nil freehold? Australia's biggest mistake and this bureaucratic hot house is growing a taxpayer funded culture of control at an accelerating rate, increasing the national debt that our grandchildren will be paying for.
The Civil Aviation Act must be changed, asap and no excuses and finished talking.
We are drowning in enquiries, we've had enquiries for more than twenty years. I'm sure private pilot Glen would like a rest from Government work, and does not need the money or notoriety from a stint as the Chairman of The Final GA Enquiry. Final because there will be nothing left to enquire about.
By the way, 'independent' Canberra officials might just be too independent. Maybe it's been too easy to accept big fees from government to conduct yet another enquiry. What is their incentive to bring to a conclusion the bleeding obvious?
Responsibility must be sheeted home to our Parliament, the independent umpire is a myth, I'm up to here with Ombudspeople and all the other hangeroners from Canberra. Did you know its now nearly 400,000 in the free world's most socialist super planned city of little free enterprise and almost nil freehold? Australia's biggest mistake and this bureaucratic hot house is growing a taxpayer funded culture of control at an accelerating rate, increasing the national debt that our grandchildren will be paying for.
The Civil Aviation Act must be changed, asap and no excuses and finished talking.