As a matter of interest, on how many occasions has anyone asked to see the CPL and medical certificate of the flight crew member/s of the 'commercial aircraft' you're about to board, and to see a copy of the AOC under which the operation is about to occur? Me? Zero times.
Mr Katter doesn't know what he doesn't know, and wouldn't know whether a bunch of bits of paper put under his nose were legitimate documents satisfying regulatory requirements or impressive fakes.
Methinks Mr Hoch is not Robinson Crusoe.