CASA use Show Cause on own FOI

[Kharon]

A political sacrifice.

If this is true, then it's probably a cynical CASA contribution to the mass BBQ of senior GA pilots.

There has been a raft of senior guys busted back to the ranks on very little 'hard' evidence, in the name of 'safety' over the last couple or three years.

If, there is a Senate enquiry into the behaviour of FOI' s, CASA will need to be able to say: "hey – we are even handed, look, we did one of our own". This is (or was) probably one of the few honest, hard working guys/gals remaining at the coal face.

Regulatory reform will help, but it is not the root cause of many of the present issues. Anyway, didn't team Illich/ McKenzie kill off the first lot of sensible reforms with some 200 odd pages of intellectual, totally useless argument in favour of a Gulag style system at the start ?.