How long would it have taken and how much would it have cost for CASA to go to the site, and what deep insights and wisdom would CASA have brought to the technical issues?
Don’t get me wrong: I reckon it’s ‘waaay dodgy’ all round. But Australia is, after all and as they say, the only third world aviation nation where you can drink the tap water. I despair when there are calls for the CASA Keystone Kops to ‘do’ more, when that usually entails delay, cost and amateur hour analysis.