I am constantly reading of how various bogeymen like the CAA (or the FAA across the pond), the BAA and any other kind of AA are out to get the GA pilot, and as such, are our natural foes. But I'm sure it can't be as black and white as all that. Are there shakers & movers in the CAA who have PPLs & enjoy pottering about the sky on Sunday afternoons? And are any of them lurking about in these forums and reading this very post?!
The things I read in
Pilot,
Flyer and elsewhere would have us believe that the CAA is nothing but a bunch of anonymous pen-pushing beaurocrats whose training and life focuses on treating GA as a irritating nuisance. A bit like house flies. The assumption is that there is next to no dialogue between the parties and that we are implacably on opposite sides of the fence.
But are any of you peeps out there
in the CAA? Or the AEF? Or an airline operator? In short, is there some real understanding and perception going on?
Just curious.
Kev