Minister announces new maintenance rules

[Mike Borgelt]

According to a report in The Weekend Australian Minister McCormack will announce that CASA has started work on Regulations to reduce the cost and ease the burden of red tape. Mr Carmody is quoted as saying these will be based on those of leading aviation nations such as the United States

 

We shall see.

 

If CASA works at its usual pace this shouldn't take more than 25 years and any comments on any consultatation will just be ignored. We will end with with "reform" like the new medical non reform.

 

I'm going to write to the Minster to suggest they simply download the applicable FAR's from the FAA website and do a global search and replace of FAR with CASR. Should take a few minutes.

 

 

[Mike Borgelt]

Opps sorry. Can you fix Minster to read Minister, please mr Mod?

 

Done! (Mod)

 

 

[Thruster88]

The minister is probably just trying to be seen to be proactive ahead of the AOPA summit this week.

 

 

[kaz3g]

I’m sure the NZers would sell a copy of their legislation to CASA for a reasonable price.

 

Kaz

 

 

[Mike Borgelt]

kaz, it is my understanding that they offered to do this ca 1996.

 

When the CASA rewrite was started Boyd Munro offered to do it in 3 months. CASA has been at it for 24 years, nowhere near finished and what they have done is worthless.

 

A bunch of totally out of control public servants.

 

We don't need any more legislation than: Australian civil aviation shall be governed by the FARs. We can then chop the ones we don't need at leisure.

 

 

[Mike Borgelt]

This may also be because word of the new EASA maintenance regs for light aircraft and gliders is leaking out. They seem quite reasonable and we are meant to be modelled on EASA rules - the old useless ones is the model we took. Story is that someone higher up in EASA looked at the old rules four or five years ago and fired the team that wrote them for writing impossible requirements. Subsequently they have had a project to make them more reasonable.