Sunny CAR 206 is the ultimate buggers muddle..! And then some.
Yr 3rd para gets into "commerce" WTF has CASA got to do with whether a PPL tradesman earns his keep carrying his tools and goods either for sale or not, in his c172.
All the "safety" regulator has to think about is whether the tradies is Licenced AFR and medical, his c 172 has a current MR. And he flies by the rules VFR or IFR. NOTHING ELSE,
The rest is a classic example of how bureaurats worm their way into TOTAL CONTROL of how you live yr life ...if an aircraft is involved.
IN the Wet the tradie must use the 172...in the dry he could pile into his ute and use what "road" there is.
Does he get booked by DoT for carrying tools, goods and engaging in commerce that has SFA to do with the travel by road.. NO he does not. Why then for the use of an aeroplane ????
And of course how CAsA applies 206 is inconsistent and discriminatory in the extreme.
Senate hearing 2011? and 13 ? ceo the Screamer McComic..." I say again (thinks: you dumb senators ) CAsA is NOT an commercial regulator" Got that. Absolute BS of cours
206 is handy because r 206 it is a catch all that has undone many.
Also the CA Act does not allow CAsA to regulate 'commerce', 206 is "ultra vires" the Act, and has no head of power' Its a rubbish regulation, but its there and a destructive one to boot.
Sec 92 of the constitution clearly? enshrines the right to free trade NOTHING to do with CAsA
Over the decades CAsA stated on numerous occasions they would rectify all that..BUT NEVER HAVE.
CASA also advised that non safety "crimes" of theirs, strict liability of course, that dont actually make it anywhere near the Govt definition of a crime.. eg forgetting to completely fill in a log book line These would be wiped or just minor civil instead of criminal misdemenours . AS usual wih CAsA ..NEVER HAPPENED'
CAsA the Nightmare is now overtaken by a different horror.
(Non) Aviation House could be empty in six months time, evryone gone home because there is no GA left
Fly safe and wash yr hands !