Keith Page

Read this link, something is not fitting together. KP. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-22/airline-passengers-facing-perfect-storm-as-pilot-shortage-bites/10012624

Have a read of this? Who is dragging the chain? KP. DAS DIRECTIVE Records Manager - D15/462765 01/2016 DAS Directive No. 1/2015 1 of 3 DAS DIRECTIVE – 01/2015 Development and Application of Risk- Based and Cost- Effective Aviation Safety Regulations Date of Directive: 29 May 2015 Directive No: 01/2015 Issue No: 2 Date Revised: 28 January 2016 Directive This Directive reaffirms CASA’s commitment to ensure that regulatory changes are justified on the basis of safety risk and do not impose unnecessary costs or unnecessarily hinder participation in aviation and its capacity for growth. It also extends the principles underlying this commitment to the application and administration of the regulations by CASA, to the fullest practicable extent consistent with the interests of safety. DAS Directives 01/2015 DAS DIRECTIVE Records Manager – D15/462765 01/2016 DAS Directive No. 1/2015 2 of 3 Guiding Principles Development of Aviation Safety Regulations • Aviation safety regulations must be shown to be necessary. They are to be developed with a view to addressing known or likely safety risks that cannot be addressed effectively by non-regulatory means alone. • Consistent with CASA’s obligations under the Civil Aviation Act and other Commonwealth laws and Government policies, every proposed regulation must be assessed against the contribution it will make to aviation safety, having particular regard to the safety of passengers and other persons affected or likely to be affected by the activity involved. • If a regulation can be justified on safety-risk grounds, it must be made in a form that provides for the most efficient allocation of industry and CASA resources. Regulations must not impose unnecessary costs or unnecessarily hinder levels of participation in aviation and its capacity for growth. • Aviation safety regulations should conform to the framework for the classification of aircraft operations, and align with other standards and practices, adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), unless differences are necessary to address particular features peculiar to the Australian aviation environment and those differences can be justified on safety-risk grounds. On the same basis, the aviation safety regulations should be consistent with international best practice, as reflected in the standards and practices of other leading aviation countries. • Recognising that international standards and practices vary, CASA will align its regulations with those that effectively address identified safety risks in the most costeffective manner. • Where it is appropriate to do so, aviation safety regulations are to be drafted to specify intended safety outcomes. Where known or likely safety risks cannot be addressed effectively utilising an outcome-based approach (in whole or in part), more prescriptive requirements will be specified. • In developing aviation safety regulations, CASA must consult appropriately with industry in an open and transparent manner ensuring that all communication is clear, timely and effective. • Subject to the applicable drafting requirements, CASA will strive to ensure aviation safety regulations are drafted as clearly and concisely as possible. • Where practicable, aviation safety regulations should be developed within a three-tier framework, comprising the Civil Aviation Act, the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations and Manuals of Standards. • Supportive advisory and guidance materials, including other acceptable means of compliance with regulatory requirements, will be promulgated and disseminated in conjunction with new and amended regulations, having regard to the time when compliance with new or amended regulations will be required. DAS Directives 01/2015 DAS DIRECTIVE Records Manager – D15/462765 01/2016 DAS Directive No. 1/2015 3 of 3 Application of Aviation Safety Regulations • In accordance with the Civil Aviation Act, the safety of air navigation is the most important consideration for CASA in performing its functions and exercising its powers. • Consistent with that obligation, the principle of legality and the explicit requirements of the civil aviation legislation in any particular case, CASA must always have regard to all relevant considerations when exercising discretionary powers, including the cost and other burdens involved in the application of regulatory requirements. • This cannot and does not mean that CASA must demonstrate that, in exercising its discretionary powers under the regulations in any given case, it has adopted or will adopt a course of action involving the lowest cost to, or least adverse impact on, the person or persons affected by that action. • What it does mean is that, where a person who is or will be affected by CASA’s exercise of discretionary powers under the regulations convincingly demonstrates, on evidence, that: - the same safety outcome contemplated by the applicable regulatory requirement can be achieved on another, more cost-effective and/or otherwise less onerous basis; - the person is able and willing to adopt and give meaningful effect to that alternative approach to compliance; - the alternative approach proposed can be implemented fully and effectively in a timely fashion, having regard to the interests of safety; - the adoption and implementation of such an alternative approach by CASA would not involve unreasonable additional oversight or administrative responsibilities on CASA’s part; and - no other persons would be adversely or unfairly affected by the adoption of that alternative approach, CASA will entertain a reasonable proposal for the adoption of another approach and, in the absence of good reason not to do so, CASA will adopt such an alternative approach. Signed Mark Skidmore AM Director of Aviation Safety Date: 28 January 2016

The Jab situation is OK which ever jurisdiction the Jab is registered that is where it is administered. ....BUT....Take the 150 for example. Say it is registered RAA it will still need a registered organisation to maintain it.. To me this exercise will be more costly to own this aircraft. Where is the cost benefit.? KP

How is the motor vehicle medical fitting into this new proposed equation?? KP.

You are correct there is no succession planning about the place, there are no young ones encouraged. KP

So what are the benefits of having an aircraft weighing 601-760kg on the register? Having the aircraft on the RAAus register will be useless as the benefits of RAAus registration are null and void because of the need to be serviced by a licensed organisation -- PLUS -- things will be worse as there will be a yearly registration as opposed to a life long registration. KP

Regional?????????????? You are kidding...KP

Go and have a look at Levil Aviation . I think it is wonderful what they are doing.Just wonderful equipment for the amateur builders and affordable. KP

Amateur/home/scratch build is the owners design, if those people have the smarts to meddle in that pond so why aren't they allowed?A great deal of the innovations in the world came from those people. KP

I do not know that you know.. Some of these home built aircraft are complex. I know of one (19reg) its electronics was way up in the complexity stakes.A great deal of the electronics which is in GA started life in the home builds. After the testing it went on to the GA life with paper work, certificates and the magic TSO, still the same animal.... BUT... 10 x the original cost. KP

"Duty of care" That is OK however how do you get around the situation after some of these people have been told many times and still they can not comprehend.We run out of breath repeating the dialogue, what next. KP.

Put a process in place where people will be responsible for their own actions, problem solved. The crux of the matter people will not put up their hand and take the blame by them selves they will want to wriggle out of it and blame someone else. As kids when we fell out of a tree, we planned not to that again do it some other way BUT now they blame whoever planted that tree. KP

Young ones being encouraged....NONE.The rigmarole which one has to go through is unbelievable. All in the name of this so called "safety", "safety","safety". There is nowhere that this simple formula is displayed.. good culture + procedure + process=safety. In this situation good culture is the correct construction that is not being satisfied till all is correct.(construction) KP

That is far removed from what I am saying.Like now I will explain this word for word. When I find some contentious issues and or subjects, I will not explain the case word for word., I will show you the way to get to the information and you can use your own words for the interpretation. That removes me from the old issue of "He said". As for ELAAA when it is operational I will explain the requested information word for word. KP

That is about correct. Charge the maximum which industry will tolerate and there is the price.KP.

Hello Happyflyer I am back from doing some work.I need to explain myself here and by the looks of things I have been misunderstood. The number of times people ask me to spell the situation out word for word I must hasten to add, it will not be prudent of me to answer in a manner as such, word for word. However I do present very good tracks to follow to gather this information for ones self. i.e. Ones owns research and interpretation. KP

You are on to it Bruce..KP.

Why not get the rail up and running?Only a bit of planning needed. Australia was developed on rail produce was taken to market as well. KP

No planes flying equal no accidents -- SAME AS -- No cars on the road equal no deaths.Well ban everything and rap people in cotton wool. Then they will suffocate in the cotton wool. Come on people use our head a little we do not need minders at every corner. KP

That is a wonderful idea as great deal of home builders are so talented they are more interested in getting things correct than the normal ego jockeys about the place.The other aspect of the home builders nothing happens until there has been a pile of research gone into the project. With this type of thinking we are getting away from engineered learning.. i.e. all doing the same thing as they all have been taught the same way. (Think) KP

You are on to it Jim. Why go and reinvent the wheel? Look over the ditch yep they are doing things not too far wrong. I have to confess that I have had a very good look at their systems, *maintenance *operations *administration. Why not go have a chat with our NZ brothers and sisters and glean what they are doing, will save a lot of grief. While you are there ask:- *can this be done better? *would you do this again? *are you completely happy with this? My honest view over here, the egos are in the way and they so terrified some jobs might go. i.e. CASA & RAAus. Have Part149 and Part103 should be implemented simultaneously and with that situation aviation in Australia will be in a dawning of new era. Best thing in the world learn from someone else's successes, achievements and mistakes, quite simple. KP

But!!! why have we all got to have a robust discussion about it all -- then in two years something is gunna happen, could.Why not listen and have something on the way of being correct first up? This micro managing behind closed doors will never work. KP

Yen the odour of a rat is about however he is well concealed in the hay stack.KP

What qualification do you award the people who work on engines and airframes in the Jabiru factory.? Those people can not be forgotten as that is where the knowledge is based. KP