On 21 Apr 2016, at 8:55 PM, Noel Roediger <roedi...@internode.on.net> wrote:
Emilis - I agree totally with your thoughts and agree that it would be
prudent for GFA to utilise the knowledge of senior members.
Justin: I have no idea of your capabilities re GFA operational and
regulatory issues - nor do I have knowledge of your GFA authorities and
qualifications or personal aviation qualificationsl. Please advise.
Your Utopian past really did exist and we had sufficient capability with the
statesmanship of GFA and DCA officers to develop a very sound and
universally admired operation which was adopted by many other international
authorities.
You may question my authority to make such a statement so see following.
I was besotted by aviation at a very young age and was adopted by members of
the Adelaide Soaring club at the time GFA was formed.
I am probably the only member living that experienced its formation and
proceeded through its entire existence to this day.
I' ve lived, achieved and performed their dreams and my wife and I have
mentored numerous youth into an aviation career.
I'm appalled that current GFA officers have caved in to junior and
unqualified CASA emplyees.
FYI I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire unless you can provide info.
otherwise.
Noel.
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From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf
Of Justin Couch
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:26 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] T&S as a mandated instrument
On 21/04/2016 8:40 AM, emillis prelgauskas wrote:
There was a very good reason that gliding had 'exemptions' globally in the
Regulations. To avoid this mismatch between commercial aviation and our
sport specific needs.
It's probably worth some time to chat with you privately to get some details
on where these can be found. Unfortunately I am now far more intimate with
both Oz and international airworthiness regulations than I really would like
to be. If these exemptions do exist written down that you are claiming, I
cannot find them, nor can anyone else at the GFA - perhaps they went up in
smoke with the rest of our paperwork a few years ago?
The regulatory framework that existed in the utopian past has changed,
rather dramatically on us, so things that may have been in place before just
don't work any more - if we can find the documentation of them at all. I see
a lot of what is happening now as no different to then - someone finds yet
another stupid rule, everyone mulls it over for a time, an exemption gets
made according to the paperwork framework of the day, everyone shakes hands
and moves on.
I'd like to understand how you find this particular issue (T&B on MEL) any
different to the fire-extinguisher example you cite. Both seem to involve a
silly rule that doesn't apply to us, someone working out a way to get an
exemption within the rules of the day, and everyone just moves on (and then
30 years down the track someone recounts it as a funny story of "Kids these
days! Back in my day....").
Including that the best results are achieved when GFA told CASA to stick
it - that we are the experts in our sport, which needs to operate in
specific ways in order to be safe.
Remember the primacy - SAFETY.
And, they in turn can tell us the same and stop gliding in it's tracks
completely, or make it so financially uncomfortable for us to have the same
effect. Neither is a good outcome for us. So, work out when to bend with the
wind, and when to stand firm against it. Everyone has a different
interpretation of that point.
We, luckily, have some very good people on the GFA side that know the system
inside and out as they deal with it professionally every day. So, when weird
stuff like this happens, they already know what to do and slip in that extra
one sentence into our paperwork so that the guys on the ground like you and
I can continue to operate mostly unaffected.
How does making the paper mound higher and in multiple mounds (the
compliant, the interpreted work around, the reality) contribute positively
to this?
The argument that 'society demands this' is so hollow - as if the public
bystander leaning on the aerodrome fence is able to tell the operator how to
do things because of the unformed opinions - regulation by social media.
The utopia of the good old days no longer exists and we do have to put up
with this stuff whether we like it or not. I bet 40 years ago the elders of
the time were decrying "adding more mounds of paperwork" too, comparing it
to pre-WWII gliding. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yes the world is getting more litigious (specially insurance companies!). On
top of that, we now have a bunch of know-it-alls on social media condemning
everything that can gut something almost instantaneously regardless of good
intentions or not of the target. We can't live in a vacuum and pretend the
world doesn't exist around us. If genetics have much to say, I have at least
another 40 years of enjoying this sport - I'd like to still be able to have
that option should I, and all the younger guys I'm trying to mentor, be
interested.
Anyway, I'll shoot you (emillis) a private email to see what we can dig up
from historical paperwork and get into electronic form and weave into the
current reality.
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