The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) will continue with the Flightplan 2030 project despite the departure of its principle architect, Director of Aviation Safety Mark Skidmore.
Skidmore launched Flightplan 2030 in July last year as a project to prepare CASA for new challenges that the industry is expected to face over the next 15 years. It comprised a series of consultative forums held around Australia to gather ideas from the aviation community.
With the resignation of Mark Skidmore in August, the project has been at a stalemate, although a CASA spokesperson told Australian Flying today that the new plan is to release it next year "after further work."
Flighplan 2030 covered topics such as the future availability of avgas, new technology, the rise of drones, ADS-B, the need for CASA to be more adaptable quickly and alternative means of compliance.
CASA has said that all industry input is valuable and will be retained.