Porters last post was pretty damn good. Australian aviation regulations are absolutely a joke. For most of the past 31 years of the unfinished ‘regulatory reform program’, at a cost of $500m, J.Aleck has been the legal head and indeed the neck that turns the head at CASA. CASA has collapsed under the weight of excessive and unworkable laws. Due to their fear of repealing outdated and unworkable rules, they simply add to them. The result of all this nonsense is a bureaucracy that has strangled the aviation industry, and itself, to death. It no longer works. It’s time to put a bullet in the Frankenstein and start afresh. Time to do things Kiwi style - 4 years and $40m will get the job done. A new system that will make it possible to actually be an aviator!!! Imagine the economic benefits to manufacturing, industry, leisure and a host of other flow-on effects? The current mess in its current form can not be saved and is not salvageable. Only a clean slate starting from scratch will work. But I doubt it will happen in my lifetime.