Aviation in Australia – Prior December 2015
December 2015:
18th December 2015: Jack Pantovic and the AAT
18th December 2015: Project Eureka and AOPA Australia
14th December 2015: Monthly Missive
9th December 2015: Pilot’s Bill of Rights passes Senate
7th December 2015: Launceston TAS action against RAus pilot by #casa
1st December 2015: Alice Springs
November 2015:
26th November: Mark Skidmore missive and comments
20th November: PJOps death at Goulburn [Previous activity]
18th November 2008: 7th Anniversary – PelAir Accident– Norfolk Island discussion
15th november 2015: Part 61 #casa statement
15th November 2015: Avsafety Seminar – Atherton
11th November 2015: Avsafety Seminar – Cairns
11th November 2015: AOPA’s Marc de Stoop speaks
9th November 2015: Mawson Lakes Adelaide
9th November 2015: AHIA calls it quits on #casa actions
9th November 2015: Reminder issued to Minister Truss
7th November 2015: Richard Green killed and had been in a tete-a-tete with #casa [Vindication of Richard Green ]
5th November 2015: Perth
5th November 2015: Regulatory requirements and the 10-commandments
4th November 2015: Jandakot
Discussion on #casa Economic Control
October 2015:
31st October 2015: Dick Smith letter to #casa on unjustified costs
29th October 2015: #casa annual report released
29th October 2015 #asrr “review”: Cairns and the actual meeting outcomes
Thu 26 to Sun 29 May 2016: Rotortech 2016.
28th October 2015: #casa + Mark Skidmore missive
28th October 2015 #asrr “review”: Archerfield
19th October 2015: Senate estimates, Dick Smith submission
15th October 2015 #asrr “review”: Hobart
12th October 2015: #casa releases FAA AD for PA28
11th October 2015: 10th anniversary of Col Pay flight of the Wright replica at Narromine
7th/ 8th October 2015 #asrr “review” : Albury & Moorabin
4th October 2015: AVMED and other areas of disclosure [FOI]
1st October 2015: Replacement ICC announced to replace Elizabeth Hampton
1st October 2015: Tracey leaves Farnborough
September 2015:
31st September 2015: National Audit Office matters
23rd September 2015: Understanding Part 61 and Transitioning your flying school to Parts 141 and 142
22nd September 2015 #asrr “review”: Darwin
21st September 2015: September missive [10-point plan by Skidmore] [10-commandments]
20th September 2015: Morning Glory Cloud – Burketown
Sep 17, 2015: #asrr “review” – Bankstown/ Brighton le Sands,
17 September 2015: Aviation Criminal Recklessness ALAANZ
9th September 2015: Bankstown airport for sale
8th September 2015: Senate and Angus Houston
4th September 2015: Aviation seminar – Cairns
4 to 6 September 2015: AUSFLY at Narromine, NSW.
August 2015:
25th August 2015: September missive
25th August 2015: Release of #casa corporate plan
22 August 2015: 2015 Aviation Careers Expo – at Brisbane Airport.
21st August 2015: Sandy Reith has an open letter to aviation
20th August 2015: Paul Phelan publishes questions on #casa
19th August 20015: Dick Smith supports GA against #asa and #casa
18 August 2015: 05:00PM – Senate Commitee – Duration: 2 hours
18th August 2015: Aviation and Defence Forum.
July 2015:
23rd July 2015: TAAAF meeting
23rd July 2015: AHIA meets with CASA Board and DAS of CASA.
20th July 2015: Risky Goulburn Airport
July 2015: June missive
7th July 2015: NDB beacons removed on arbitrary basis by Air Services – Safety case??
5th July 2015: Terry Farquarson “retires”
1st July 2015: New CASA Board commences under Jeff Boyd
June 2015:
28th June 2015: Ben Sandilands brings the heat onto Air Services
27th June 2015: Arthur Pape meets with Skidmore in NZ
24th June 2015: PelAir investigation moves to Brisbane
24 June 2015: Senate report on the application of regulatory governance and economic impact of wind turbines.
20th June 2015: Skidmore addresses AOPA at Bankstown
14th June 2015: Request for tender by ATSB to raise/ recover VH-NGA [PelAir flight]
8th June 2015: Dick Smith awarded Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia
6th June 2015: Airservices [ASA] union – claims the moral high ground
5th June 2015: Dick Smith achieves a “win” against CASA on airspace issues
May 2015:
Wednesday 27th and Thursday, 28 May 2015 – Senate Estimates QON returned from February Senate Estimates
At the estimates were: CASA, Airservices [ASA], ATSB, AMSA
26th May 2015: Meeting of Skidmore and AFAP
25th May 2015: May Missive
19th May 2015: CASA Flight Crew Licensing Sub-Committee meetings – AHIA representation
19th May 2015: Senate Wind Turbine inquiry
12th May 2015: Federal Budget leaves aviation exposed to $25m per annum excise
7th May 2015: Lockhart River Tragedy now is 10-years-on from Wednesday 7th May 2005 at 11:44am
7th May 2015: Memorial service for Sally Urquhart at 1030 Police Academy Brisbane
6th May 2015: CASR PART 61 AHIA/CASA MEETING – SYDNEY 6 MAY 2015 + Comments
5th May 2015: Shane Urquhart speaks out on 10th anniversay of Lockhart River
1st May 2015: Rumour that Terry Farquarson will move on – 30th June 2015
April 2015:
25th April: Anzac Day
24th April 2015: April Missive
15th April 2015: Publication of negative Ombudsman’s Report on CASA
2nd April 2015: March missive
1st April 2015: April Fool’s Day!!
March 2015:
March 23rd 2015: Closing date for submissions for Wind Turbine inquiry
27th March 2015: Fee changes by CASA to seriously impact aviation
23rd March 2015: ABC Four Corners – Karen Casey and #PelAir
18th March 2015: Skidmore addresses Police conference on remote vehicles
16th March 2015: Part 145 Disallowance Motion – Senator Xenophon
12th March 2015: McCormick ‘misses’ becoming head of ICAO
11th March 2015: Funeral of Bernie Currall [private in Melbourne]
February 2015:
27th February 2015: Death of Bernie Currall [patient on the PelAir flight and ditching]
25th February 2015: ATSB attempts interview with PelAir flight nurse
24th February 2015: Senate Estimates – Canberra ATSB, CASA, AMSAR, ASA
20th February 2015: CASA loses CVD case
19th February 2015: ATSB starts PelAir investigation afresh
19th February 2015: Bankstown problems exposed
18th February: Call for the PelAir CVR to be recovered and PelAir re-investigation begun
17th February: ICAO Head proposed – McCormick nominated Truss makes statement
15th February: PelAir / REX outed over $385,000 in donations to political parties
9th February: Parliament commences in 2015
6th February: PelAir and Karen Casey/ David Helm – ‘Reserved decision’
2nd February: PelAir action commences in NSW Supreme Court
January 2015:
23rd January: Truss announcement on McCormick
22nd January: Monthly missive by CASA
19th January: CASA web page gives us a new CASA CEO biography
12th January: Mark Skidmore Into office on 12th January 2015
7th January: Bankstown Master Plan Approval by Truss
1st January: Mark Skidmore commences his tenure
Aviation in Australia – Prior December 2014
December 2014:
December 22nd: Release of Instrument and Repeal of Instruments
December 22nd: Release of Supreme Court finding on 2006 Parkes helicopter crash – implications for PelAir compensation
December 14th: ATSB “decide” to re-open PelAir investigation
December 11th: The Hitch response to the ASRR “Government response”
December 10th: Aviation Industry Consultative Council – first meeting
December 8th: ATSB announces a “review” of PelAir report
December 6th: Sandilands report on replacement of Martin Dolan [ATSB]
December 3rd: Xenophon response
December 3rd: Truss and mrDak response
December 1st: Mr Skidmore hits the deck – What are the CASA hierarchy telling him
December 1st: Canadians finally reply in ATSB [partial] review
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November 2014:
November 10th: Has Mr. Skidmore started at CASA??
November 3rd: No show by Mr. Skidmore at CASA
November 1st: Annual report CASA and Annual report ATSB
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October 2014:
October 31st: No announcement of New Board members
October 30th: Appointment of “Mark Skidmore” as CEO CASA
October 20th: Senate meetings and Senate Estimates
CASA in Estimates, ASA in Estimates, Bankstown Issues, Archerfield Questions
October 8th 2014: Cairns to Canberra Caravan leaves for Canberra
October 3rd 2014: No positive outcomes for Part 61
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September 2014:
5th September: No announcement of New Board members
1st September 2014: Part 61 commences, to Industry dismay
1st September 2014: Farquarson appointed as acting DAS
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August 2014:
31st August 2014: McCormick finished
8th August 2014: John McCormick [who has resigned as DAS] statement about Part 61 in The Australian
8th August 2014: MacArthur Job dies
6th August 2014: Minister Truss announces tenderer for MH370 search
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July 2014:
17th July 2014: Senators Heffernan and Sterle put a second “Contempt of parliament” for consideration.
14th July 2014: Jeff Boyd of RAAA appointed to CASA Board – Is this a cynical sop to the Industry, as Boyd was out spoken earlier???
10th July 2014: Senator Xenophon puts “Contempt of parliament” for consideration
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June 2014:
27th June 2014: Mrdak gets a 5-year re-appointment????
13th June 2014: ASRR panel release the public submissions and redact [confidential submissions] over 70 of the 269 submissions
3rd June 2014 – Minister Truss releases ASRR Report
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May 2014:
29th May – Minister Truss says that MH370 search is “…back to square one…”
There is Senate estimates on the Budget 2014: Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development: Monday, 26 May and Tuesday, 27 May 2014
This is the month of the Australian Budget and questions for reduction of costs imposed on the aviation industry.
It is also the month for the submission of the ASRR report to the Minister.
A very important report that will either give life or death to the aviation industry.
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April 2014:
Minister Truss takes 40 minutes to mention anything about aviation and in the questions [by the journalists], which go for 35 minutes, not a single aviation question.
Does the Minister need some questions asked??
Minister Truss addresses the Press Club in Canberra – 30th April 2014
Minister Truss gets the KSA announcement done today (15th April 2014) and Badgery’s Creek is alive.
Parliament releases next sitting days as May 13, 14 and 15th May, with Estimates on: 26, 27,28 and 29th May, then continued 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th June.
ASRR report due out in May 2014
Angus Houston takes charge of MH370 recovery – ATSB removed from obvious involvement
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March 2014:
CASA attempts to smooth over the industry
Government Response to the PelAir Senate Inquiry [March 20th 2014] See: PelAir Senate Inquiry
Legislation into the Australian Parliament to increase the number of people on the CASA Board by two.
Release of PelAir Ministers response due on 27th March 2014 ??
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February 2014:
260 submissions to the ASRR but only a handful are public.
There has been no publication of non-confidential submissions to the ASRR.
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January 2014:
The current inquiry is the ASRR [Aviation Safety Regulatory Review] as a result of the PelAir Inquiry completed in May 2013, with a reply [to the PelAir inquiry] given to Minister Albanese on 5th May 2013, but no action by the Member for Marrickville. ASRR calling for submissions now [by 31st January 2014] with a report in May 2014.
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18th November 2013:
But on 18th November 2013, under questioning in the Senate, Mike Mrdak said he gave a report to Minister Albanese on 5th June 2013 [before the election] but nothing has been heard in the public sphere from Albanese.
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October 2013: The Coroners Report came out in October 2013 for Hemple.
The Coroner for the Hemple Affair is on Monday 18th March 2013 and then Friday 22nd March. There is no news yet as to when the final report will be made. In June 2013, the Coroners report is expected by August 2013.
See: Coroners report
Australian Story makes interesting watching.
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September 2013: Change of Government and Mr. Warren Truss becomes Minister, Mike Mrdack remains Head of Department
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31st August 2013
Still no update on when a response to the senate. Minister Albanese chased down the street by a Prime News reporter, refusing to answer PelAir questions.
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August 5th 2013: Australian Parliament porouged
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24th July 2013
The latest is the ATSB referring it’s “Operation” to the TSB of Canada for a report.
This happened on 24th July 2013 in the Board meeting, that according to Dolan’s reply to the Senate was his response to the PelAir inquiry. The TOR’s have not been published and appear restricted in extent.
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May 2013:
Current Inquiry [Report castigating CASA and ATSB out May 2013]:
The current Senate inquiry into aviation, which continues on 28th February 2013 will delve further into the dubious relationships between the regulator [CASA] and the accident investigator [ATSB].
The report is now “out” and the full details are here.
