You would have to wonder how many years for Parliament to wake up to the waste and mismanagement by CASA in it’s excruciating and costly methods. For myself it is particularly galling, almost every year there’s some glitch in obtaining my Class 2. Having many years ago had a medical op with no prior or post op problems affecting my fitness to fly, I’ve been required to extra expense every year. My GP gives me a clean report, my DAME has no problem. A former DAME told me that other pilots with worse histories than mine were getting two year Class 2s.
At long last CASA Director Shane Carmody is trying to ease the AVMED pain with some reforms which is welcome even with glaring flaws (i.e. not for NGT or IFR, therefore incentive to drop or not gain the higher qualifications).
This year my two months grace has run out again due to AVMED incompetence. So another waste of time and angst is in the offing.