text of Phelans article.
...And you wonder why the industry is rooted?
This is not going to change until a very large number of people are killed in an aviation accident.
To Hell with the rules!
“Shorter” regulations in particular remain a fantasy. We are told for example that the USA’s equivalent Part 91 is about 33 pages when reduced to standard legislative A5; that New Zealand’s equivalent is about 39 pages; but that Australia’s Part 91 is about 250 A4 pages, which will probably increase to something like 350 pages when in A5 format.
Why so much more paper? The reason for this has been a stated insistence within CASA’s legal staff that “the government requires” that Australian aviation regulations must be framed in a criminal law format, along with penalties.
Nobody understands where this claimed “requirement” originates,..........