Re: No Asic = No Fly !!!! What a joke !
In the early days of the DOTARS wheel lock nonsense I wrote asking would they be requiring wheel locks on all white vans as these seem very popular bomb delivery vehicles with terrists. The answer was that there are too many white vans and that this would be impossible.
But therein lies the answer. We can't stop the white vans or the fertisiser sale but we do have a list of all aircraft owners and pilots and we have the means to control them. Great idea let's get wheel locks and photo ID - in fact two, almost identical IDs.
Would any of this had it been in place have stopped the 9/11 disaster? No.
But at least we are seen to be doing something.
I suspect that DOTARS has shown the major incompetence here but let's blame CASA as well.