Kharon,
thank you for the update, was wondering what was happening.
I look forward to reading the full trial transcrpt.
Just from your summary, it perhaps should be required reading for everyone involved in GA, and most certainly those from the mainstream press. It would seem a classic example of just what can happen when a bureaucracy is allowed to run out of control.
The rights or wrongs of the case really are not the point, rather the apparent questionable lengths these public official may have gone to to prove a point, with no accountability for their actions.
At the end of the day if this ends in their favour, they will go forward emboldened by the immunity inferred, and so the seed sprouts.
As has been mentioned in other threads in these forums, if corruption is allowed to take root it grows. The law is supposed to be fair and applied equally, the application of justice should not be based on ones ability to pay.
Unfortunately our regulator, and those within it who author the regulations we suffer, are well aware that within the industry there is unlikely to be anyone with the recources to challenge them, except perhaps the major airlines.So they are free to trample on an industry, strangle it with unintelligable rules, and feel secure that they will go on earning remuneration that they could never hope to receive in the industry and leave a trail of collateral damage behind them, because at the end of the day its the "Little" people who bear the results of their actions, who lose their livelyhoods, have their dreams and hopes shattered.
I sometimes wonder how these people sleep at night.