25 July, 2018
Glen, I’m not sure what other correspondence you had with CASA, but judging from the email trail between yourself and CASA (in post #1622), it would seem that your email to Massey on 25 July 2018 was the trigger point at which you poked the CASA bear. To CASA, your stern email was a “threat, an act of war declared against the big ‘R’ regulator”. From that point they became determined to stamp out some little upstart who dare lecture them and indeed question their accountability for aviation safety and due diligence. Ouch! To CASA, you had now became a very big boil on their buttocks. With each further correspondence the relationship soured. The louder your voice bellowed, the bigger a threat you became until they crushed you like a soufflé.
I feel for you mate and you have the support of many many industry folk. But CASA is an entity that has morphed into a beast so powerful that even the Minister ****s his pants and runs gutlessly in the opposite direction. When that power is given to psychopaths and sociopaths the collateral damage is not only inevitable, it’s ugly, very ugly.
As always, best of luck and best wishes.