Planned Root. Face reality. I too agree BASI/ATSB are a good bunch of guys and my dealings with them were most professional.
I could almost say the same thing about DCA prior to 1989.........
It only needs ATSB to employ some pilik of a lawyer and create an Office of Legal Council empire (with another 40 odd lawyers who would never get work in private enterprise) and the trouble would start. ATSB can't play CASA type games with the AOC so they target pilot freedom.
Regardless of the ATSB intentions, now or in the future, why give them the legislative power in the first place? If they have the power one day, somewhere, someone will use it.