It gets even worse IHMO. Have a read of the Av Security Act....slipped in there a couple of years ago? is that yr Flying Licence is now a security document !!!
After 8 months of regurgitating all his past history which they have had for the last 15 years he got his ASIC...but had to go with all the ID stuff he had sent them, to collect it from somewhere else, in person . THREE weeks after it had supposedly been sent .
During this long wait he was advised, altho his PPL is all current, that he cannot fly his a/c without an ASIC.!!
Good grief !!.. there are thousands of pilots like me without an ASIC because I have no need to go to an airfield where RPT/ Security Sensitive area exists.
In his previous battle for an ASIC some lady wrote advising him he could not even TAXY his own aircraft.!
If you do an act considered to be "terrorism" or offences against the Act..there goes both yr licence and yr ASIC.
So why dont make them/ yr LIcence ASIC one and the same, perpetual until you lose it or give it up.
Aww thats right ,....revenue and employment.
To get this card is more onerous and time wasting than getting a passport ffs...the ID document you travel overseas with,!
And you cant use it as an ID. CAsA people do tho, to identify themselves, why not us???
We really are going down the Nationalist Socialist path...little by little = a lot, our rights and liberties are being eroded away by bureuacraps trying to keep themselves in a job.
I had to laugh when given a card by the AFP airport visitor...that said on the back You are the eyes and ears of yr airport, advise any suspicious activity. Thats exactly what the US Govt told aviators there after 9/11.
But in the Land of the Free, the citizen aviator doesnt have to go thru all the BS we do. And every TWO years.
Those that give up some liberties for a little temporary security , deserve neither liberty or security. B Franklin, was it ?