Ausssie Bob... while there may be many disparate egos in the GA industry, you are very wrong to lump aviators in with the CASA mind set.
Some CASA persons are drunk (pissed out of their tiny minds!)on the "power" they are able to wield... at taxpayers expense of course. Anything goes!
Do as I say.. not do as I do.
The perversity, the lack of integrity and moral fortitude is boundless... and those of us that have been dealt a crap hand by CASA have every right to heap disdain on the completely unchecked, unlead, rotten "authority".
You can rest assured they can dish it out, but they sure as hell can't hack it if it bites back.
Onya! Sunfish... be careful about making statements about not talking to CASA persons alone and noting, recording and having a witness to everything...
you might just get a threat letter from the AGS/ Aust Govt Solicitor, sicced onto you by CASA, for using yr right of free speech for making such comments.
Wanna see my copy?... its a classic of bluff and bureaucratic BS.
But for those of evil intent that have the "power"... anything goes.
It should be a subject for ALL pilots. Self Protection Methods : Legal 101.
Talk to a CASA person alone... at your peril.