Rose_Thorns
Your post is all very good in theory but the reality is that operators have been operating aircraft out to these remote islands for years legally without carrying an alternate. It would be a very brave PIC indeed who insisted on carrying mainland fuel or worse still refusing to operate a flight based on the fact he would like to carry an alternate but there was no legal or operational reason for doing so. When CAO 82.0 Subsection 3A1 is changed a lot of operators will have to acquire new aircraft to complete the tasks as the old ones simply won’t be able to carry the new fuel requirement and carry the payload. I can just see some of the replies to CASA from companies affected by this NPRM.