Originally Posted by
43Inches
Also think of the aviation tourism opportunity if FAA licensed pilots could just come here without the rig-moral and go on touring holidays. Right now it's way too much hassell. You just have to watch the episode of the Simpsons where they come to Australia, they think we're some sort of Nazi rule oriented backwater.
What killed the once popular self-fly tourism was the dreaded ASIC. Until that became a requirement, many pilot tourists also came from Europe.
CASA could easily validate any ICAO licence for private flying (as they once did), were it not for that embuggerance.