Broome helicopter crash July 2020
Megan, have you ever worked for Esso? Asking for a friend.
We flew the majors and had a audit on average every 9 months by one of the three companies our clients used. We would of had more except we banned one audit co for deliberately not following instructions on behaviour within our hangar environment - on the casa side every two years, sometimes less and casa was always a complete waste of time where as the other guys knew exactly what to look for
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The last CASA audit we had was utterly comical. Granted it was coming out of COVID and they've got resourcing issues, but the audit involved filling in a form ourselves and then spending 25 minutes on the phone with a very young CASA desk flyer (on the other side of the country) who asked broad, open ended questions in the hope that we'd volunteer something they could put as a finding in their audit.
CASA currently have no idea how to audit due to a total lack of expertise within the required disciplines.
Hence the new CASA regulations for Part 133 and 135 AOC holders to have a Safety Management System, where they manage the safety and quality requirements internally.
Hence the new CASA regulations for Part 133 and 135 AOC holders to have a Safety Management System, where they manage the safety and quality requirements internally.
Fixed it for you.
Maybe CASA should be encouraging members of the public to find out, before they jump on board, whether AOC holders are complying with their SMS obligations.
The new CASA regulations for Part 133 and 135 require AOC holders to have a Safety Management System, where they manage the safety and quality requirements internally. Whether AOC holders are complying with that obligation is something CASA does not currently have the competence to ascertain.
Some of the stuff about CASA you read on here beggars belief. The trinity of Air Services, CASA, and the ATSB appear to be struggling to service aviation in this country to the level expected of its practitioners, putting it mildly. Are they the holes in the Swiss cheese now?
No doubt about it, and they have been for a long time. But CASA and ATSB are the biggest holes. Airservices is in the business of making money and, if it can do that while reducing the services it provides, that’s what it’s gonna do.
It’s staggering that RPT is allowed to go on in G/TRA/TIBA in a country claiming first-world aviation status. And it’s staggering that CASA seems to be labouring under the misconception that members of the public have any clue about how to satisfy themselves that a pilot is licensed and qualified.
But of course everything’s sweetness and light. CASA, ATSB and Airservices are causing Australia’s enviable air safety record. Just ask them. And parliamentarians are happy to pretend that’s true because the alternative would be taking responsibility for the mess their abrogation of responsibility has created.
It’s staggering that RPT is allowed to go on in G/TRA/TIBA in a country claiming first-world aviation status. And it’s staggering that CASA seems to be labouring under the misconception that members of the public have any clue about how to satisfy themselves that a pilot is licensed and qualified.
But of course everything’s sweetness and light. CASA, ATSB and Airservices are causing Australia’s enviable air safety record. Just ask them. And parliamentarians are happy to pretend that’s true because the alternative would be taking responsibility for the mess their abrogation of responsibility has created.
Well, the big one will come one day, no doubt the major causation will be organisational. And if you're part of an organisation that causes it, the best place to be will be Australia where white collar corruption is an art form. Guilty usually means a corrections order or minor fine.
