I absolutely reject CAsA's insistence that US style regulations cannot be implemented in Australia.
Thorn Bird,
Absolutely correct, after all, CASA Parts 23-35 already are the FAR equivalents by reference, but CASA glosses over this fact, and the rest of the aviation community seems to suffer willful blindness that this has be the case since mid-1998.
CASA Part 21 was largely FAR 21 with a number of industry generated (forced) changes, that all proved to be good, but over the years CASA have been allowed to reverse almost all those beneficial changes, by a succession of Ministers who only "hear" CASA.
The thing about the NZ rules is that they are the FARs, with a good deal of US "political" bumpf edited out, the NZ rules have become the model for a range of countries.
As I have said, time and again, but it never seems to register on the collective psyche of the Australian community, aviation or otherwise, but Australian foreign aid paid for the NZ rules to be installed in PNG, because the (then) Australian rules were not "fit for purpose".
The current Australian rules are immeasurably worse.
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