LEADSLED,
Bloody well said.
The FARs different sections cover an increasing amount of regulation and apply depending on the class of operation and the size of the aeroplane etc.
There is some overlap, say between 91 and 125 for certain ops/aircraft as has been discussed.
Private is 91, Charter is 135, RPT 121 and Fractional Ops 91K ( from memory) Ag is something else again.
The basics of 91 are general flight operations and as such apply to ALL operations with the more specific requirements of each other applicable part then applying over certain parts of 91.
Australia would be very well served to do a complete rewrite and follow suit of the FARs with maybe a few minor variations.
We certainly can lose all the legalese and strict liability penalty crap after each sub, sub part. etc
Compared to the USA we have no real high terrain to speak of, few airports, very little traffic, little severe extreme wx in a country the size of the USA alone yet CASA, the lawyers, bureaucrats etc continually try to reinvent the bloody wheel all over again for all our "special Australian conditions" etc.
Basically there are more aircraft and air traffic in CA alone than in all of Australia on any given day. If the FAA and ATC tried to use some of our Aussie rules and procedures it would be a nightmare in a few hours.
We have many of the same outmoded regs from the 50s, 60s &70s still on the books and then try to tweak them to meet the conditions of an aviation world almost totally different than when they were conceived.
After seeing all this crap from the early 80s I doubt very much anything will ever change to any significant degree.
Our industry and Australia are the global losers as a result.
