First skim reading - waste of time. The Department already knows what is required is more of the same. That is apparent from the wording and, more importantly, the lack of any aspirational goals whatsoever in the document.
For example: ‘ “ access to regional airports is important for regional exporters” (motherhood).. Exactly what are the consequences of lack of access? What are the possibilities in gdp terms of unfettered capital city like access?
Exactly how do air freight and pax costs affect the total cost of australian export businesses? Start from here then work down.
As for GA and private aviation, how big are these in gdp terms? How big could they be?
‘They Department has no vision whatsoever, so this paper is a waste of time. I’ve written better.
To put it plainly, where is the ******* gap analysis between where we are now and where we could reasonably be expected to be? THAT is your starting point.
To put it another way, there is a whole field of new technology in UAVS and self drive not to mention electrics and what is the governments response? Suppress/ annual licence fee for anything over 250 grams. In a country with our broad scale agriculture - paddocks that literally extend over the horizon, All that does is ensure that Australian UAV Agricultural technology will NOT be developed and sold in australia!
Its after midnight sleep calls.
I shouldn’t bite the head off the author, but they have been given a prescription to write to.
Last edited by Sunfish; 5th Oct 2020 at 13:39.