It's all about money.....
Would that that were true.
It’s partly about the money.
It’s mainly about airspace arrangements that are driven by perception and convenience rather than objective evidence and objective risk and cost benefit analyses.
There are RPT pilots in Australia who would prefer to fly in G than E. That’s got nothing to do with what’s going on in people’s pockets. It’s got everything to do with what’s going on between those pilot’s ears.
The languid ease with which hundreds of cubic kilometres of airspace can be locked up so as to cosset one ADF aircraft is a product of culture, not science or money.