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Blueskymine,
Far from true, flight and engineering have great difficulties with FAA at the best of times.
What makes the USA system easy is the plain language the rules are written in, compared to Australia.
If you read AOPA, the real one (USA) magazine they have specialist contributors who offer advice on everything from medical, insurance, handling the FAA, hidden agenda in the regs, flight tests, maintenance.
New Zealand regs would be worthy of consideration..
Blueskymine et al,
It doesn't matter a damn what the regulations are, if the culture of the "authority" is rotten, CASA with the FARs would be no different to that, which we have.
Re. NZ regulations, they are largely the FARs cleaned up, with a bit of EASA (JAR era) --- but CASA would make mincemeat of them with the present culture.
Most of you seem to have forgotten ---- or never knew or realised ----- but in 1998 we put in place CASR 21 ---- more straightforward and less restrictive than FAR 21, and our CASR 23-35 are fundamentally FAR 23-35 by reference.
And just look what CASA has managed to do with it!!
Tootle pip!!