An e-petition is maybe something to be considered down the line
A worthy idea, but can you get hold of 100,000 signatures? The chances are you'd have to go to the non flying populace. I can guarantee that you will find little sympathy out there - most believe pilots are nothing more than overpaid bus drivers, with no thought to how they are trained and how the training ensures their safety on the way to Tenerife.
As for the efficacy of e-petitions, just look at the reaction of our current legislators to the call for Babar Ahmad's trial petition yesterday. They are as full of piss and wind as the previous bunch of low life.
Despite my condemnation of the CAA, the parts that deal with other aspects of regulation seem to do a good job. It is just a shame that I am forced to wait to discover this due to the inefficiency of the Licencing department. Let's face it - this is the unglamorous - but essential - side of regulation. I just wish they'd do it with a bit more gumption, grace and understanding. We have just spent the better part of a small house in Liverpool and we bother them with aggrannoying bits of paper and books with dates and times? Shocking. Oh - and that will be yet more wedge for a !!!!e service. Not even a please!
They enforce the law passed by our elected toerags, but are not accountable to us, even via our MPs. They are not civil service - thanks to Nu Liebour - and they don't have competition to keep them on their toes.
As far as complaints go, who knows where those go? I suggest we all just avail our testicles to their toecaps, scrunch our eyes closed and await the blows caprice and whimsy might land on us. It's all we can do.