Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Someone in CASA just woke up one day and decided that what Glen had been led by someone else in CASA to believe was OK is now no longer OK. (Actually, I suspect that the person who 'woke up one day' was just used as a patsy to do the dirty work of someone else who saw Glen's success as a competitive threat.) Is aviation any safer now, as a consequence of that change? Of course! There's less of it.
I belong to a flying club (and hire their aircraft) that operated under APTA's model.
The irony is that APTA's procedures, protocols and staffing competence was operated to a higher, safer standard than any other operations that I have witnessed before or since their demise. Talk about backwards...
