SWH... you miss the point.
I am a Photographer-Aerial, (once) with my own business and my own aircraft. So why the hell would I want to hire an unsuitable aeroplane and a non-photography qualified instructor ...to do MY job. And most remote area places I went to, no such thing would have been available, anyway.
People used to contract me to take the photgraphs.. because I was good at it, and produced the required
photographic results.
It's a one person operation. and I am the qualified photographer to know about producing the required
photographic result. These days an autopilot, a monkey or even CASA person could do the
flying bit.
But what do they know about the specialist photgraphic reqirements...
NOTHING.
CPLs are paying passenger qualified pilots, sure... but they also know SFA about the photographic requirements.
And pray, do tell me, what is it that a CPL does on a flight from A to B that a PPL doesn't do.? After 50 +years I have yet to find out.
CASA is a safety regulator (ha ha). Since it is my ar$e up there, I'm as interested in the safety aspects as anyone.
And if I can do that ok without recompense, then WTF has CASA got worry about if I make a dollar out of it.?
As Ive said before, quite frankly it (commerce) is none of their fn business.! they are supposed to be in the "safety" business...ONLY.
Ministers say it, The CAA Act says it, CEOs say 206 is a fcuk up, and now we find there was no "head of power" for there it to be commerce "law" either.
But why would any of the inmates of the (non) Aviation House LSG/OLC/ LSD funny farm do anything to rectify the long standing situation of wrong regulation,or bad law.
Cant be bothered? tied up in some other reg "brain snap"? or just too busy playing the para-legal parasites over the years, decades of, see below.
After 23 years of dicking about with the regs at great taxpayer expense, most of it ignoring Government requirements re simplicity, strict liabilty,the definition of a 'crime' and commerce, we, the industry has (to suffer) the monumental clusterfcuk that the rotten place is today.
Many individuals, businesses.. and Aviation in Oz are all the poorer for it.
A "Safety" Regulator,... my AR$E!
