Beg's the question, why on earth do we pay taxes? Will we soon pay a call-out fee for the police?
A lot of anger out there in GA circles, particularly for the less experienced guys (all of us at one point!!!) who can't command decent, let alone award wages and this impost just adds to an already hard career path. The originator certainly has some valid arguments and I could argue against the guy and say hey, cut them some slack....these guys are so slow, generally incompitent and largely apathetic that is probably does take them a day to process a medical. If only we could charge them our hourly rate when we calculate all the time we take in chasing medicals, licence amendments etc etc.
CASA truly are a disgraceful organisation in almost every respect after ten years in the industry, I am still searching for something positive to say about them.