404 Titan,
All I can say is that, in Australia, you have been extraordinarily lucky, and sadly, in dealing with CASA , you can't "make your own luck".
In my experience, and the record shows, the experience of many others, the level of day to day grief that CASA routinely meters out has no counterpart in NZ, UK, SA, Canada or the US.
The whole approach to aviation regulation and enforcement in Australia is, with very limited exception, the deliberate creation of CASA, including the impenetrable "in the negative" regulatory style, that does so much to create "inadvertent" criminals.
What does stand out is the CASA use of "strict liability", outside the guidelines, for "offences" where there is clearly a "mental element" to the alleged offence, and in my opinion, these matters of FFR ( or FRF -- Final Reserve Fuel, as it now seems to be) are areas where it is not appropriate for the use of strict liability.
Tootle pip!!