Hot Pete, What happened to AOPA, well they are too busy infighting and censoring every thing their members say to actually get out and do anything for General Aviation.
The Bankstown situation is a repeat of Canberra and have no doubt the rest of the GAAP airports will follow as soon as they see Bankstown get away with the rate hikes.
I expect the mighty AOPA President will get into this and have his say, no doubt disparaging and Snarek another AOPA man will wade in.
But what is AOPA doing about the real issues I hear you say?? like the AFM debacle, AOPA has encouraged the CASA Director to say CASA will not enforce the Law until early 2003 despite the fact that CASA cannot allow any citizen to knowingly break the Law, selective interpretation of executive authority.
How many Air Tourers will be flying after Aug 16th, no Flight Manual you see because theType Certificate holder is out of business. No Chipmunks flying, they don't have a valid Type Certificate.
And just to make something silly really bizarre, most Cessna's don't require an AFM at all, just placards on the airframe in strategic positions, even the twins.This is most of the Australian training fleet. A case of CASA shifting the legal responsibility for compliance to somewhere , anywhere but at their feet.
What a cock up.