What a shame that this topic of discussion appears to have gone the way a good airspace system that we had 10 years or so ago went.
Too bad Dick and others involved in redesigning Australian airspace, (again), can not see that Australia is different to the rest of the world. The concept of user pays in a place where there are few users and getting less due to the same concept, will never work.
I agree it is fun to fly in the US, and that the system is simple. It also is on a very cheap user pays system as it encourages many users and there lies the biggest difference.
What will CASA be called after this next airspace adjustment? The number of title options seems to be diminishing. Funnily the US seems to have kept costs down there too, by limiting beaurocratic bungling hence not passing that cost on to the tax payer also.
I think I'll stay flying overseas...........