Dick you are putting so much energy and time towards NAS why not also attack the real problems facing GA in Australia such as the charging regime and the many headed beast that the CAA has become?
For such a small population we now have these government organisations to administer less than 15,000 aircraft and 30,000 pilots...
CASA one half of the CAA
AsA the other half of CAA now made in to a GBE
DOTARS - New airspace directorate
AMSA - AusSAR running SAR in Australia post CAA.
Surely the cost of all the highly paid CEOs and executive management of each organisation is huge? Why not adopt the US model of the FAA, one bureacracy to rule them all?
One organisation to run avaition is good enough for the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand and New Zealand and probably many others. Why are we special?