ricksheli. Good point squire. No I don't know that the department has deemed that as an absolute fact. I strayed into the dead man's curve equivalent - the assumption.
I assumed that as Mr Mark Marsters, the chair of the local trust, has been in the media several times recently saying they had asked CAA for an exemption to keep operating from the hospital; then the department had told him/his trust that singles do not comply in and out of that pad.
Why else would they feel the need to apply for an exemption?
Also, as much Hugh Jones is not always the most pleasant of human beings; one has to think quite hard as to why he would refuse, as operator of the A119 for the Taranaki trust, to continue to operate out of the hospital pad following the Director of CAA delivering his letter.
But, you are right I have made an assumption, not stated a fact.
However, I agree whole heartedly with you about the level of knowledge - or lack there of - about these matters of both the media and some trust managers/boards/chairs.
The level of their ignorance is a mix of sad, scary and funny all at the same time.
TK
(edited for typo)