Bravo Bravo Bravo Grip-Pipe. Agree with everything you wrote. If these changes don't happen soon we (everyone interested in the future of aviation) should mobilize. We should have every pilot and Lame tip a once only $1,000 into a fighting fund. (Ask anyone who has been wrongfully dealt with by CASA how cheap this is.) The $30 million raised if banked conservatively would give us $1.5 million every year to fight the good fight. No more Pizzing around in that AAT kangaroo court. We could drag CASA kicking and screaming into real courts with with real judges and maybe even a jury. Real courts award costs so that would ensure we only took on cases that had merit. It might even make CASA wary about bringing on cases that didn't. eg Johns case.We could pursue through the civil courts individual officers who who have clearly and deliberately committed criminal acts--generally perjury. Some of the money might also be used to further our fight in the political arena. Once CASA has been sorted we'll move on to that other needlessly expensive,clearly delusional,empire building handbrake on aviation---AVIATION SECURITY.
Cheers RA