Registration Renewals

[dodo]

Or send you a renewal notice earlier, so they can take 5 weeks to process registration?

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Call your local board rep and ask them why the computer is not working

 

 

[Jabiru7252]

If my rego doesn't arrive on time, I'll hire the club aircraft and send RAAus the bill.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Paying rent for hanger? send them the bill for that.

 

 

[KRviator]

Was talking to one of the office girls a couple of weeks ago about initial rego for my plane. Got the standard "5 weeks" forecast.

 

So 5 weeks insurance, 5 weeks that I can't have my plane at its' local airstrip, 5 weeks parking charges at the remote airfield. For what? Because RAAus can't get their house in order after how long?

 

 

[ozbear]

I paid mine on line as soon as I received the renewal it took about 4 weeks it was only out of rego for 3 days it was 8 weeks last year things r looking up :)

 

 

[DonRamsay]

I can't argue with much of the above adverse comments about rego renewal delays other than that friends of the Board get special treatment. There have been times when I've been the Board's worst nightmare but I think they would probably see me these days as a friend. I neither sought nor was granted special treatment despite suffering a six week period on the ground due to delays in processing my rego.

 

If you want to understand why we are in such a parlours state you need to understand that there were decades of substandard performance by RA-Aus management at both CEO and Board level. The performance of the office staff can only ever be as good as their leadership facilitates. Yelling at the office staff, apart from being counter-productive is simply not fair.

 

Yelling at the Board Members that allowed this situation to develop to the stage where CASA felt obliged to interfere is just.

 

Bagging out the relatively new team who are busting their butts to get us out of this mess is not so fair. My judgement is that the EGM in February 2013 was a real turning point and that RA-Aus was dragged kicking and screaming in a new direction. Since the AGM in Sep 2013 effectively a new Board with a new balance of power has been in place.

 

So far we've seen Jim Tatlock get a hold of the finances and produce crystal clear financial information even if it wasn't good news. We've seen a strong team established in Ops and in Tech and a new CEO employed to get the admin moving. The Board Exec lead by Mick Monck has had very positive meetings at the highest Ministerial level in Federal Government and built bridges with CASA that are to our mutual advantage.

 

That is more progress in less than one year than has happened in the last ten years. I understand that it is of little use to say that good things are about to happen because from the ordinary members viewpoint RA-Aus has no credibility.

 

I know that in the coming few months good things will happen and that credibility will be established. And it will happen because of member activism that sprang up in 2012 and has persevered to the present. The real cause of our present malaise was entrenched member apathy that allowed things to drift along without critical evaluation.

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

Just got email advice that registration payment has been made. So, renewal due 31st July, renewal made online about the 7th of July from memory (I think that's right it was about a week after I received the 1st renewal advice) so if I take a week from the first date its about 6 weeks 2 days..... I have not yet received the stuff in the post but presume that's about 3 days or so away so the total on ground delay could be closer to 7weeks (oops mistake 3-4 weeks! 7 weeks is the total time taken to progress the registration) .

 

Andy

 

 

[dlegg]

Just got email advice that registration payment has been made. So, renewal due 31st July, renewal made online about the 7th of July from memory (I think that's right it was about a week after I received the 1st renewal advice) so if I take a week from the first date its about 6 weeks 2 days..... I have not yet received the stuff in the post but presume that's about 3 days or so away so the total on ground delay could be closer to 7weeks.Andy

31st July to 20th Aug= 3 weeks without rego.

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

Yeah sorry that terminology wasn't correct, total time for registration to occur is 6weeks 2 days. total time I couldn't fly was as you say circa 3weeks. My post wasn't one of condemnation, just trying to put out the facts as they relate to me.

 

 

[DonRamsay]

Andy, they can email the approved rego to you if you need to go flying before the plastic card arrives. Surprised they haven't done that for somebody of your newly exalted stature

 

 

[fly_tornado]

How many inboxes must a rego travel before it's approved?

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

Andy, they can email the approved rego to you if you need to go flying before the plastic card arrives. Surprised they haven't done that for somebody of your newly exalted stature

Yep, they sent me the credit card acceptance advice, unfortunately nowhere on the email did they say what the payment was for. If they had of added "reregistration payment advice" then to me, that would have been sufficient to blast off and keep the corrosion hopefully at bay

 

Andy

 

 

[DonRamsay]

They actually sent me a copy of the rego paper as an attachment.

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

They actually sent me a copy of the rego paper as an attachment.

Nope....no attachment

 

 

[dlegg]

Well mine just arrived in the inbox, expired 6th Aug so only 2 weeks without rego. Still time to go for a blast this afternoon..........

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Nope....no attachment

The RAA office typewriter must have been playing up again.

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

actually I got a separate email this afternoon with a pdf copy of the letter that is normally sent with the card....Good enough for me, I'm off flying weather permitting tomorrow.......

 

 

[jetjr]

I still havent got new card,

 

 

[Dafydd Llewellyn]

Erhm - I trust you'll excuse me, but see attached . . .

 

 

 

[aj_richo]

Brand new aircraft rego for a kit built Sonex, sent documentation from Adelaide on the 3 Sep 14 via Express Post.

 

Registration advice by email received today 18 Sep 14.

 

Assuming they received it on the 4th.. 14 days to process!

 

I'm pretty happy, didn't expect anything until October!

 

 

[ozbear]

Currently running 7 to 10 working days for renewals excellent improvement on 12 months ago.

 

 

[Yenn]

They used to be fast at doing renewals, then when CASA found out how chaotic the system was and lowered the boom it became slow. Now that the backlog of shonky regos is sorted out it should go back to being acceptable.

 

 

[robinsm]

yep 14 days for me to. Stoked...!!!

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

They used to be fast at doing renewals, then when CASA found out how chaotic the system was and lowered the boom it became slow. Now that the backlog of shonky regos is sorted out it should go back to being acceptable.

there was no shonky regos just shonky administration.