ASIC's
 

Any ideas on the speed of issuing these cards? I know there was some logistical problems early on. Have these been sorted?

Have you applied yet?

If not have you been living in a remote mountain top cave the last 6 mths?:ok:

Plan on 3+ mths....better yet PRAY!!:{ :ugh: :cool:

Any ideas on how much longer those of us who aren't Aussie born and bred will take to get one? I applied in November and haven't heard anything yet except for a letter telling me that they are jolly busy and everyone is working very hard to get them out at some undefined point in the far future.

Getting my AVID & photo license issued seemed to take an absolute eternity - I shudder to think how much longer this might take :ugh:

Paul.

my application went throughon the 1st of August! :hmm: So keep waiting paulthornton!

ASIC & Photo Licence
 

don't hold your breath - I first applied Jan 18th, 2005 and have updated my paperwork in line with C'wealth Gov't (AFP) demands and all I get from my follow up phone calls is " there is a big que and we are working through it" so go figure...??
With March looming and NO photo ID or ASIC card it is going to be fun getting onto and aound by private air

gr...gr...gr...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Arrrggghhh
 

Arrrggghhh me maties,

Try taking to the high seas.....no casa, no asics, in fact i'll let you all in on a little secret.....I not even a real sea captain!

Let strong winds always fill your sails!

Arrgghhh

Suggestion
 

Why don't we all just tell them to stick it up their A***s and forget the whole thing. You'll probably wait for another year.

D6

From CASA and I quote" Yeah there suppose to be all out in the mail by the end of March, but I don't know, and that's what we have to tell everybody".
So I paid over $100 for a stinkin service that nobody knows. My medical, I pay over $100 dollars again and it arrives 2 days after my 2 months DAME extension expired. Great circus they got going. Stick ya service up ya rrrrssss.

I would'nt blame CASA for any of this crap! They are merely attempting with the resources that they have to implement decisions made by the idiots whom inhabit the place which might best be described as 'Cowards Castle' in Canberra.

You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.

Yep, submitted licence application late October and form 639 (the ASIC one) the day after it got sent out. Like everyone else, still waiting. Apparently the bottleneck is at ASIO/AFP, not CASA though the net result is still the same. Recently rang CASA and they told me to write in. No reply yet. No hope really either...

Same boat.

Pinky's onto it.

Kid you people not. We put two ASIC applications in in very late Dec and we got them this week. There is no rhyme nor reason when compared to some of the tales of woe, but that is what happened. We got them back quite quickly.

However, did put a photo lic application in Sept last year and still waiting.

Gday
Anybody want to take up a book, betcha about half way though March the wackers will realise they are pissing into the wind and will extend the deadline till god knows when. But we have to protect ourselves. Had a look around Warrnambool the other day nice high pool fence around the terminal but if you wish to enter the tarmac area just walk around the hangars and step over a 2’6” chain barrier, what a load of crapp.
Just remember the majority voted these idiots in at the last election so we just have to put up with them.
Have a nice day.
Cheers Q :{

Do you honestly think it would have been any different if the other lot were in power??

I can't even remember when I sent the ASIC application in.I think it was early November. Nothing yet ,and I'm not expecting anything in the near future. Do have the AVID though -lucky me.
Pinky is correct in that this is not CASA's doing.
Some mental giant decided that if they issued a photo licence,then an AVID card and then an ASIC card ,this would be the most effficient way to combat terrorism in this country. They then go and lob all this on CASA and tell them to get it sorted by Dec. 2005.
How anyone could sit back, seriously look at this, and then say to themselves "well that'll work", has got me beat.

The clock keeps on ticking as March looms near and the majority is yet to get their pathetic political passes.

Once the dead line passes what are those people, that are still to receive them, going to do? Give up their jobs, past times and way of life?

I for one won't bat an eyelid when it comes to rocking up to an airport that is supposedly (according to who?) at an elevated risk of terrorism?

If I need to........ NO BUGGER THEM......... WANT TO........ go to Coffs for the weekend or Dubbo for the day then I'm going to! ASIC or not.

All pilots need to band together on this issue.

WE HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG HERE PEOPLE!!!

We've done what was required of us. We've filled in the forms (on several occasions for some) we've payed our money, we've waited long enough!

When will mine turn up??????? Don't care!!!! Just don't expect me to wear it until I get it, ya big bunch of dumb rrrrses!!


You know it makes sense!

VB

Yes, still waiting for mine too...not holding my breath.

My cynical side expects that if the deadline is not extended past March, you can bet your bottom dollar that on 1 April, CASA inspectors will be at those nominated airports in droves.

Perhaps something to consider.

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VB - hear, hear !!!

If we put up with this, soon they will tell our employers not to let you fly till you have it. I fear that day might come. I can only hope not.

D6

But D6 imagine the bun fight if DOTARs tried that little number on the employers?

It's one thing to make the lives of your employees a little more stressfull but quite another to restrain trade because of beaurocratic incompetence....I'd laugh myself hoarse if, come Mar 31, DOTARs were so stupid...it would be hillarious.

Gday 185skywagon
Givus a break I won’t get into that argument, but if those others ever get back in I think suicide seems the logical step, been there before and hopefully never again.
I still reserve the right of my opinion of those that are in with decisions like this rubbish that we have put up with.
I still reckon in a couple of weeks we will get another extension for a long time.
On another subject anyone got a link to this very naughty cartoon that’s got those that we need to be protected from, got very upset about.
Cheers Q