I notice this forum has a host of "I'm new here" signs that can stay up for years. It gives a false
impression that because someone does not have such a newbi sign that they might be more credible.
That's speculation.
I'm a great believer in quoting facts.
First CASA has its problems. Like many Australian Government departments they
have no conscience when it comes to making work to justify extorting public funds
or creating a new set of rules that take up 10 times previous regs.
Now, that said, my condolences to Bruce Rhoades. I can understand that CASA
can cause severe stress and headaches not to mention severe pains in the rectum
and neck, or cause a involuntary vomiting reaction but, I've never seen any
scientific evidence or even my wigi board tell me that CASA actions cause
brain cancer.
Nor is there any official or unofficial word that the findings were made for a
"corrupt" purpose of say supporting the competition. Hate to say it but if you
want to advertise vomit comets in a Cessna 172 then you will have a very
exclusive business that no normal person would want to do.
If you do vomit comets you might "feel" that the aircraft is stalling, but its
a illusion and or a delusion.
It's also a delusion to allow vomit comet flights and think that CASA will
form a conclusion that they are normal operations because the
passenger signed a waiver.
Then there is the intelligence factor. What sane person would
post videos of vomit comets and not expect to have a bored
CASA employee happen to watch youtube while he or she was
eating was eating lunch.
Then there is all those beat ups along the beach, all on video with
no where to land if the engine failed and after having subjected the
same engine to abuse of vomit comets which is something that I have
not read about, perhaps I missed that.
The only weak link is CASA's prosecution for letting a passenger
hold the controls. There is a big difference between a Cessna 172 and
letting your kids climb into the captains seat of a jet in cruise on an airline flight.
CASA are applying the strict letter of the law from the later on the former.
Then there is the weight and balance. That's not desperation by CASA
but a negotiating ploy for if charges are laid
for dropping some of the charges for getting a guilty plea to the substantive charges.
The moral of this story is if you have a newly minted commercial licence,
don't omit written weight and balance, don't do vomit comets , don't do
beach beat ups, don't do a 180 in event of a low level engine failure.
Now watch the flack.