A successful candidate needs to have a suite of policies, not a single interest approach. They also need to present as acceptable to a broad spectrum of voters.
As much as I love flying, the "public" is generally not so interested. They are interested in summer fire fighting resources, in access for the aerial ambulance or RFDS, in the flow of visitors to their towns. I fear most of them won't like the thought that "safety" is being downgraded and that's what the other side will argue.
Fear is the strongest emotion...just look at the ridiculous extent to which successive governments are trying to deal with crime by ever-harsher sentencing in response to the agitations of the Murdoch media instead of dealing with systemic disadvantage and the other causes of crime.
Kaz.
