While I had a fairly painless experience obtaining said bit o' plastic..applied Dec 17th and received it....or a ASIC holding mate in Brissy did...several days before the deadline and valid to January 2008...I firmly agree with all the negative posts...it IS a vaste waste of time and resources...ours.
I hear QF staff are having a hard time getting their ASICs renewed and being forced to get daily passes issued to go flying...why?
Because QF were so snowed under doing CASA/DOTARS job that they fell behind with their own staff.
It would be funny except....well it's not