That's because we have a "regulator" that doesnt believe in aircraft as a business tool if you want to carry "something" in it that may result in "commerce"... like a tool box or a camera.
eg : PPL electrician off to a remote job in a C172 with materials to be installed for $$s...AFTER the frigging flight. Uh oh!... carrying goods for sale...thats a FCUKING CRIME.! No AOC or CPL... as if it would make any difference to the flight.
WTF has this got to do with CASA..??? Well you might ask! I'll beat the drum again......CASA is a "safety" regulator NOT a commercial regulator, but the CB control freaks have entrenched themselves into exactly that.
'Ultra vires' the CAA Act, noted ad nauseam by the passing parade of ministers,...
but still entrenched in that "buggers muddle" reg 206 (Aya-Toller), recently stated as " bad (illegal ?) law" by the SS. CASA cannot regulate commerce. But does.
Anything done about it, CASA ? Nah.. to busy spreading the falsehood that we're a world leader and dodging the bullets fom ICAO and the FAA.
And if you think they might change their thinking, have a look at recent UAS ops regs... there it is again ..." hire and reward" ie commerce.!
So, you can transport yourself from one place to another... but for Christ's sake don't do anything that might lead to an invoice for something you had in the aeroplane..or produced some revenue after. THAT would be "unsafe".. and commercial.... you criminal you.!
Is it any wonder GA in Oz is NOT like it is in the US.. or many other countries as well.
America thrives on enterpreneurialism... CASA just hates it.
