Someone please tell me that AOPA hasn't crashed because the sudden silence is deafening.
The punishment for not leaving the public service with an honourable line of retreat is "freezing out". Your phone calls are unanswered. Invitations dry up. You are now outside the big tent and they no longer care.
I am getting the distinct impression that we may have a Minister eager to demonstrate her green credentials by gutting what is left of GA and RAA by encouraging CASA to stand firm against calls for reform of any sort and generally doing her level best to prevent any expansion of the sector unless it is electric and very, very, quiet.
Forget about Avmed changes, 760kg., owner maintenance, privaatisation. access to controlled airspace and so on.