Really?
You could drive an airbus through Dick Smith's contorted positions. A whole industry must be destroyed for it to be fixed? If you Dick Smith, won't help fix a going concern, how could you ever be considered as part of a (fanciful) resurrection? What makes your views so substantially irrelevant is the risk from a decaying GA industry applies equally to everyone, regardless of a private aviator's personal means. With great concern, the message which continues to elude you is that while risk is equal for all, personal impact is not. Your wealth allows you to purchase the luxury of a vocalised defeatism, knowingly comforted that the impact in your personal life will be insignificant. What are the effects of your actions for others? Those not of significant means? Will not your defeatism exacerbate the challenges facing those striving with vision for the greater future in Australian GA?
Now back to the airbus. Not even at top of climb and it has to be asked: surely you don't, Dick Smith, propose operators just close their doors, walk away from their staff and businesses in order to get out of the industry. Many will have debt. Banks don't walk away just because you have.
So let us hear how you would actually counsel a business owner to leave this industry? For example, do you propose they sell out as a going concern? declare bankruptcy due debt? or simply just close down? Please put people's minds at ease with your so-far missing details of how people should take your advice and turn that into action, after all, you are clearly calling for action. What are the specific steps operators should take to get out of the industry? How long would you estimate it will take for us to completely destroy the industry and thereafter how long will it be before the fix-up phase is complete? Will it be quite difficult to attract finance in the planned fix-up phase as financial institutions realise the industry doesn't exist as its been totally destroyed? Do you envisage those who destroyed the industry will also need to seek finance to fix the industry and would you foresee any associated problems in that circumstance?