Sadly I think the future is that the choice will be RAAus or sausage factory. This is the result of the privatisation of the airports and subsequent governments allowing the developer landlords to destroy the smaller operators (I'm looking at you, Mr Albanese, as the one who oversaw the worst of this in your era as minister and turned a deaf ear to industry representatives) meaning that only large multi nationals will be able to afford the rents, parking and landing fees. CASA have played their part in the rot as well.
The sausage factories are of course financed by the bottomless pit that is VET funding - disastrous though this is, if this were to stop now there could be no GA training at all.
We old schoolers can't keep going when the students are being lured away with the promise of "free flying" and a job in an Airbus on graduation,
For some reason these operators are exempt from the requirements of the ACCC:
False or misleading claims | ACCC- Businesses shouldn't try to gain an unfair advantage by making misleading claims about their products or services.
- Claims should be true, accurate and based on reasonable grounds.
- A business must be able to prove any claim they advertise.
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