CASA's *NEW* website
Why don't we form a group that sends CASA an NCN every time they ignore their own ministerial directives or CASRs? Naturally, they would have only 30 calendar days to respond.....
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Looks like the Drupal virus (http://govcms.gov.au) has also taken over the CASA website. It's something the DTA (another bureaucracy) is herding all agencies like sheeple into whether they like it or not.
The web certificate used is also shared with another 70 government organisations (Subject Alternate Names) which is a big no-no if you take your public security seriously, but you wouldn't be using a cheap and cheerful CMS like Drupal either if you did.
The web certificate used is also shared with another 70 government organisations (Subject Alternate Names) which is a big no-no if you take your public security seriously, but you wouldn't be using a cheap and cheerful CMS like Drupal either if you did.
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I passed my PPL checkride 2 weeks ago and this new website has been playing havoc with my online application. First, it couldn't verify my ASIC and now it's unable to process my application at all. Calling CASA got the response of manually submitting the application with a form that is impossible to find. Even the link I'm given from the mycasa portal just took me straight to the info page for licenses and not the form itself.
Boy was I lucky to pass just before Christmas, because now I'm going to be sitting here for another week before anything gets done.
Boy was I lucky to pass just before Christmas, because now I'm going to be sitting here for another week before anything gets done.
I passed my PPL checkride 2 weeks ago and this new website has been playing havoc with my online application. First, it couldn't verify my ASIC and now it's unable to process my application at all. Calling CASA got the response of manually submitting the application with a form that is impossible to find. Even the link I'm given from the mycasa portal just took me straight to the info page for licenses and not the form itself.
Boy was I lucky to pass just before Christmas, because now I'm going to be sitting here for another week before anything gets done.
Boy was I lucky to pass just before Christmas, because now I'm going to be sitting here for another week before anything gets done.
The new website is difficult to navigate, not that the previous version was any better. Easiest way to find something specific on the CASA website is to use an external search engine.
CASA should have changed their website at a better time, not in the middle of a major transition where people are heavily reliant on the website to source critical information with regards to their new regulatory obligations. It's hard enough for most people just to try and understand the new requirements, let alone CASA electing to do a significant change to the platform that they use to distribute critical information midway through a major regulation re-draft that industry must comply with, particularly given that CASA have promulgated mandatory dates that AOC holders must comply with, specifically with regards to the amendment of operations manuals relating to how they are going to comply with the new requirements imposed upon them.
And then CASA mandate that operators must develop their own SMS that contains procedures and a processes to manage significant change.
Do As I Say, Don't Do As I Do comes to mind.
CASA should have changed their website at a better time, not in the middle of a major transition where people are heavily reliant on the website to source critical information with regards to their new regulatory obligations. It's hard enough for most people just to try and understand the new requirements, let alone CASA electing to do a significant change to the platform that they use to distribute critical information midway through a major regulation re-draft that industry must comply with, particularly given that CASA have promulgated mandatory dates that AOC holders must comply with, specifically with regards to the amendment of operations manuals relating to how they are going to comply with the new requirements imposed upon them.
And then CASA mandate that operators must develop their own SMS that contains procedures and a processes to manage significant change.
Do As I Say, Don't Do As I Do comes to mind.
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I passed my PPL checkride 2 weeks ago and this new website has been playing havoc with my online application. First, it couldn't verify my ASIC and now it's unable to process my application at all. Calling CASA got the response of manually submitting the application with a form that is impossible to find. Even the link I'm given from the mycasa portal just took me straight to the info page for licenses and not the form itself.
Boy was I lucky to pass just before Christmas, because now I'm going to be sitting here for another week before anything gets done.
Boy was I lucky to pass just before Christmas, because now I'm going to be sitting here for another week before anything gets done.
New CASA website
Thunderbird Five.
I am glad that I was not the only one to find that the 'new' CASA website had not been commissioned before being let lose. Still a work in progress exercise.
Thank you.
I am glad that I was not the only one to find that the 'new' CASA website had not been commissioned before being let lose. Still a work in progress exercise.
Thank you.
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The new CASA website is a product of the bean counters as it falls under complete control of the all consuming DTA borg. Saving money by building websites to a common formula is now more important than accurate and custom information for aviators, and that's all DTA care about as they don't know much outside Drupal CMS web development.
We don't know of the politics that may be going on between inter-government agencies, but I suspect CASA are telling DTA they urgently need this, that and the other, and DTA are simply shrugging their shoulders.
On the other hand if CASA wanted a system where they could sell you a calendar then DTA have that well catered for.
We don't know of the politics that may be going on between inter-government agencies, but I suspect CASA are telling DTA they urgently need this, that and the other, and DTA are simply shrugging their shoulders.
On the other hand if CASA wanted a system where they could sell you a calendar then DTA have that well catered for.
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I think the guy I talked to on the phone from their applications department is also annoyed with the online experience. Got the impression I wasn't the first person to bring this problem to him.
Thunderbird 5, I thought surely with the so-called improved website, finding a rule would be one of the first and easiest things to do and surely you couldn't have spent an hour trying to find a CAO - now eating my words because I've just tried a similar thing and it's rabbit hole after rabbit hole, worse than the previous one, and that's saying something.
The new website is a pain in the arse, but it works OK once you know where things should be:
Try selecting PUBLICATIONS from the Welcome page at the new site....that takes you to the Publications and Resources Page ......from there select the GUIDANCE MATERIAL box.
That then takes you to the GUIDANCE MATERIAL page where most stuff is accessible.
I don't work for CASA, and I don't like the new website.
Try selecting PUBLICATIONS from the Welcome page at the new site....that takes you to the Publications and Resources Page ......from there select the GUIDANCE MATERIAL box.
That then takes you to the GUIDANCE MATERIAL page where most stuff is accessible.
I don't work for CASA, and I don't like the new website.
