Originally Posted by
lucille
Assuming the numbers Dick provided are correct and recent then it’s a damning indictment of government policy, over regulation and bureaucratic over reach.
It will be interesting to somehow quantify the cost flying in each country, I would not be surprised to see the ordering in that table reversed.
A vast country with among the most benign flying conditions in the world becoming an aviation backwater..
The sad part is that it’s now irreversible. Too many clueless and cowardly politicians have over the years caved in to the dramatic projections of compromised “safety and security” by the bureaucrats. After all they are the experts… aren’t they?
Dick, you’re best placed to offer a solution. Am I wrong about irreversibility?
I simply don't think this is so. It doesn't matter what it costs, it matters how much you have to spend, and that is much less on average then in previous eras.
Bear in mind we have an active RAAUS sector, for whom regulations are actually laxer than the US equivelent, and our Experimantal rules are basically a cut-n-paste.