The Australian Friday March 12- Steve Creedy
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Proposals to roll back contentious airspace reforms are undermining general aviation and could lead to dangerous confusion among pilots, a key lobby group has warned.
AOPA which represents private pilots and small operators, says general aviation businesses such as flying schools have seen custom fall by 25 percent because of controversy over the safety of reforms.
AOPA vice president Ron Bertram said flying training organisations believed lower student numbers were due to claims by air traffic controllers and commercial pilot unions that the changes were unsafe.
...Mr Bertram said Airservices was only proposing a temporary rollback, with last Novembers changes to be reintroduced some months later.
He said the plan would lead to dangerous confusion and apprehension among pilots, particularly younger, inexperienced pilots.
"Chopping and changing back again -- and then back again --- does not make any operational safety sense", he said