Most people have less than a thirty second attention span. In addition they are bombarded with messages, mostly advertising, all day. You CANNOT get very much through to them unless you can turn it into a twenty second sound bite.
That means changing CASA by patient argument and logic is a waste of time and CASA knows it.
That is why I suggested negative political campaigning as the only way to effect change. AOPA USA does this, or threatens to do it, through its own, but not controlled, public affairs committee.
The reason CASA is worried about Glen is that the media and/or the rest of the public service might get aroused, not the general public.....yet. Can you imagine what a five minute segment on “60 minutes” could do in the lead up to a by election?
AND, there might need to be a by election soon (chisholm) and scomo has a one seat majority, a bunch of pilots yelling “don’t vote for scomo!” might then just make all the difference.
If that was threatened, ScoMo would take a blunt and rusty knife to CASA in seconds.