Leadie, regardless of the "rools", maintenance must still be conducted according to the Manufacturers maintenance Manuals plus all
CAsA's inane add on's. The difference with part 145 will be all the hangers that will need to be built to store the added paperwork and employing
dozens more engineers to fill the paperwork in. Oh forgot CAsA has made getting an aircraft maintenance ticket so expensive and onerous nobody
wants to do it anymore. Maybe CAsA could bring in a new licence category called LAMB (Licenced Aircraft Maintenance box ticker).
I guess the industry cannot say they were not warned, both you and Dick tried, now, GA is being lead like lambs to the slaughter, GA, as
we knew it, is finished in Australia.
Emergency work will be handled by the Corporations masquerading as charities, they pay no Tax, GST, air NAV charges, and receive considerable
tax payer largess, so they will survive. When you can gain a licence overseas for half the cost in Australia, flying training will desert us. As happened in Europe the availability and cost of the last men standing in Corporate charter will drive those who avail themselves of those services to buy their own.
Keep them on foreign registers, with foreign crew and maintenance.
All in the name of safety of course.
If Australia is so safe, safest in the world they tell us, why are all these obviously dangerous foreign airlines permitted to fly into Australia?