Going right back to the beginning, there really is a huge general opion that 'light' planes are dangerous. I have many friends who won't fly because they are quite simply too scared. They would much prefer to drive for 10 hours, rather then fly.
Once you get rid of that fear, then I believe you can tackle all the other issues.
It is really amazing how things change when people are busy making money! The bitching subsides, the dobbing the operator next door into CASA stops and so on.
It is a simple as getting people to start flying and then things will flow from there
Lets get some positive attitude happening, instead of all this rubbish that keep going round and round and round and.............
ST