Agreed.

They haven't done themselves any favours by this leak.

Actually, if and when I do, I won't be telling you or the world... unlike some...

aroa, thanks for the grammar lesson - all these years I've been under the impression that when you take the exact same wording as someone else has written and put quote marks around it, you are quoting them ... well, there you go, learn something new every day.

And I'm stuffed if I know why I would have thought what you reposted in your post with quote marks around it (not quoted of course) was Leddie's opinion:

Anyway, I'm suitably chastened now and am starting to respond to the stream of anti-CASA material. I'll start to become known as an 'anti-casaist' at this rate!

Australia is full of side-line commentators. Pull on a jersey and join a team to play the game some of you. Get yourself elected to the committee of an organisation don't just take pot-shots at the "doers"...

I've agreed with Dick on many issues but I fully support his intentions and many of his ideas.

Aroa,

I am pleased to see that you have taken over the role of 'grammatical monitor'.

AOTW,

I tend to agree with you that 'anti-casaist' is a hyphenated word but I suspect it can be spelt both hyphenated and unhyphenated.

It is somewhat like 'non-compliance' which can be spelt a number of ways including one way, well known at an airfield South of Brisbane:
W-I-L-G-A

Just goes to show that the regulator will never let go, especially after it's been proved to have stuffed up.. The word "vindictive" springs to mind, actus. :=

Balloon,

I was writing about some of the rather 'unusual' modifications that an engineer pointed out to me (and many others) when the aircraft arrived at its new home from NQ.

Practical issues for the new owner; not regulatory issues.

Others can go around the axle about the regulatory history.

"King of the who?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA

Folks,
A word of advice to anybody, based on hard (and uncomfortably) won experience, don't send anything by email, that you don't want on somebody's front page, next day. We wuz hacked -- an Association server.

I always take some basic precautions re. defo., in any email that mentions anybody else --- again as a result of experience ---- no such thing as a "private" email.

To anybody who thinks I am teaching you to suck eggs, not my intention, just relaying one of my personal experiences --- and there are some very smart hackers "out there".

I am surprised that AVM(Rtd.) Skidmore didn't know this, or let his guard down on this occasion. Even a 128bit encrypted VPN is not immune. He has not done himself any favours, as his Minister will, no doubt, advise him.

I would not be in any rush to blame "the usual suspects".

Tootle pip!!

PS: in RCAs/NCNs/whatever they are called this week, one CASA spelling is "anticasaist".

Two thoughts come to mind. CAsA /Metadata and the dawning of the new day of consulting with industry. Both need scrutiny and should be treated as suspicious.

Balloony... actus rhesus just proves CAsA is beyond vindictive...and likes to monkey around with the truth.
And just in case he missed it, as did 3 Senior Airworthiness Inspectors, fraudulently posing as experts, highly paid on the public purse, the Wilga elevator, singular, meaning ONE, is 3.7m long and was never off the tailplane.

But the 3 Amigos swore in signed testimony to be use in a prosecution that they witnessed LEFT and Right elevators being removed and replaced.!! On drugs were they?

Is that a practical issue, a regulatory issue or a criminal issue ??
No wonder the CDPP bolted. Didnt want to suck CAsA's lemon.

So the axle of history turns. All three are out of the building, along with the so called "investigator", now a brave bus driver. One bolted, having been involved in serious criminal aviation activity, which CAsA chose to ignore, one retired hurt and early, one got promoted but has been restructured.

So even blind freddy can see CAsA is a house of honesty, morality and integrity and worthy of our trust and respect, NOT. NO. NONE.

Maybe the political tide is turning and the Eureka Project will get some monkeys out of the zoo and back into the forest where they belong.
Although being habituated to bureaucratic sloth and the public purse they may not adapt well out in the wild.

Bring it on !

You sure about that??

Aroa,

Just monkey around --- a bit more than that!!

Which Director said, face to face, to his Minister:"But, Minister, If I have to have proof, I will need another 100 investigators".

Which Director said to inspectors: "Do whatever you have to do, we will back you ----" which is what happened re. a Wilga back of Cairns -- we are going to get this bloke, just make it up.

Which Directors (plural) said: "We are capital R regulators" and "We are policemen".

Which CASA person said: "aviation law is for lawyers and judges, for the safe conviction of pilots and engineers".

Which CASA person said:"Pilots and engineers are just criminals who have not been caught yet".

Which CASA person said:"There should only be two kinds of aviation, airlines and military".

On another thread, another pilot, of you acquaintance in FNQ, was maligned and his integrity and competence impugned --- and the poster doing this was trotting out the CASA playbook on the incident -- a fabrication.

As was subsequently proven.

Some of the things that have happened in the Sydney region, over the last few years, have been every bit as bad,( one pilot lost his C&T job, but if he had bowed to CASA demands, he would have lost his life) so it will be interesting to see if the new Sydney Acting Area Manager can make any inroads into the "culture", at least he is a cleanskin, with some relevant aviation background, as opposed to a sandbag.

I wish him luck, but am not holding my breath.

Tootle pip!!

PS: I know the answers, because, on each occasion, I was a witness.

May I quote my old man?
"The wise old owl, he sat on the oak..
and the more he heard, the less he spoke."

I'll take that up with you later. This is serious.

I am Hempy, unless the book I own is a total fabrication. It is a very good read too. He was certainly a whole lot more solo than a heap of latter day aviators who make the same claim.

Now back to the pram ...

Hempy needs to stay on jetblast with his other master debater mates.

I certainly have noticed a marked improvement in my interaction with CASA since the previous incumbent was replaced by Mark Skidmore.
I think we should give him cautious support whilst we see what he can do to countrr the residual dark forces remaining in CASA.
Not everyone in CASA is our enemy, although the cancer that was the screaming skull has left some metastases. Mark Skidmore will not be perfect, but I think he is trying to move CASA into a more responsible and responsive organisation, but it will take time
Hopefully he has a better minister now than Truss.

For a set of steak knives, who made the following statement to a Parliamentary Committee ten years ago, on 14 February 2005:

I'd love to see that "action plan"! Twenty seven years and something north of $400 million on regulatory reform - how can CASA expect to have any credibility?

Australia has safe skies not because of, but despite CASA.

It appears AOPA may have turned the corner and is now seriously representing it's Member's interests, rather than the rabid rabble it was a few years ago? Well done! :ok:

The initials BB spring to mind.

Now they get to spend decades sprouting empty rhetoric about when they expect to fix the bugger's muddle they've made. Nice work if you can get it .... :yuk:

Gee, and to think that with the Wilga, I was talking about alleged modifications to the fuel system!

The comments (from those who are better qualified than me) followed the (alleged) engine failure on the delivery flight.

But I guess none of this happened and I am so pleased to hear it.