I’m with Lucille. It is a disgraceful and national tragedy that this wide brown land where light aircraft can be the bush Ute of remote areas, has almost come to a stop.
Those that really want to fly , will do, in spite of CAsA, not because of it.
CAsA is the lead boot crushing GA and VH pvt flying. And the terrible damage done has come at a colossal cost to the taxpayer.
But wait !.. there’s more. Politicians have just let it all rot away on the CAsA mantra of “safety”,safety, safety” !
Economics do have something to do with it, but how come NZ is lively and dynamic in that little, mountainous, diabolical wx environment,
Attitudes, freedoms, less onerous reg bs and ‘can do’?.
Oz could be like the US… just cut the BS let the people free .
We have a tyranny of distances but worse still a tyranny of bureaucracy and power crazy control freaks.