You know what is different about aviation in Australia? The fear that surrounds it. It’s like no other activity. I visited a strip near Melbourne - walked into a hangar where a few people were working on aircraft. The look they gave me was what I later identified as fear - for a second they thought I might be from CASA. The atmosphere at two major institutions was also fear. The students and instructors feared the CFI and the CASA man who visited. These were not happy places
You move in different circles than me Sunny. Sorry, I just don’t do that fear, nor do I worry too much what the Reg’s say. I simply love flying and have done so for more than 3 decades in GA. I don’t see that fear amongst my colleagues either.
Like the sad Huey thread, there is an elephant in the room here too that no one wants to talk about. Sad indeed but true nevertheless.