Re: 206 Crash into Dam West of Ipswich
From my experiences CASA have never seemed very interested in acting in relation to the parachute operations in aviation. There are continued fairly obvious breaking of the rules generally in all forms of parachuting that CASA never seem to act on mainly because it's not a 'commercial operation'.
The fact that the 'passengers' onboard are fare paying(they just don't land on the aircraft) the fact that parachute operators are not under the same rules as charter still suprises me to this day. Perhaps if they were some of the dodgy operators would be sorted out though CASA audits that any other commercial operator has to undergo. The whole industry seems to 'self regulate'
Often heard it on the voice of ATC astounded that the parachute a/c has found a 'hole' in an area where everyone else has been in solid IMC.
Very sad loss of life none the less, however after seeing some of these operations it comes as no shock.