CASA chief updates GA review at Safeskies

Speaking at Safeskies in Canberra yesterday, CASA CEO John McCormick provided an update on the General Aviation taskforce review:

"In recognition of the significant changes and challenges facing the General Aviation sector in Australia today and in the future, CASA has established a general aviation taskforce to review regulatory issues affecting activities and participants within the GA sector.

"The taskforce will look at various aspects of existing and proposed legislation and the activities regulated by that regulation, gathering the views of industry participants with the intention of getting fresh perspectives from those most directly involved in the regulated activities which are under review.

"The taskforce will liaise closely with our relevant standard setting, oversight, technical and operational areas within CASA to ensure the work and the work products of those areas are fully informed by and meaningfully responsive to legitimate needs, interests and expectations of all relevant stakeholders in the GA sector.

"The taskforce engagement industry is intended to complement and supplement CASA’s existing consultative and outreach mechanisms not to supplant or supersede those activities. You should expect to see members of the taskforce over the next coming months...

"I would say on the general aviation taskforce, we will not be revisiting issues which have long been settled, so it’s not an opportunity to overturn the direction of the regulatory reform program.

"However it is a time to put in your input about how you see the sector working and what are the issues that we need to address but perhaps we haven’t addressed up until now."