The average age of private pilots, and in particular aircraft owners getting older in Australia. The archaic process of Avmed constantly overriding a DAMEs' opinion when issuing a Class 2 Medical is killing general aviation here. Something needs to be done as this will eventually affect every one of us, if not already. The fact that it's legal to drive a van load of kids down a road with a potential closing speed of 200+kph on a driver's license medical, yet potentially not fit to fly a couple of passengers over the GAFA is ridiculous.
There is a survey put together on
Country Airstrips Australia looking to gain traction to present to CASA. Would be great to get a good, honest response to determine whether this needs reform.