ex-FSO Griffo,
Because the law is a mess, take the safe way out, make certain the prize, when taken, operates as a charter, then you are fireproof.
Who pays for the charter doesn't really then have a bearing, other than joining the payer into any legal action in as the result of an accident.
If it operated as a private flight ( say PPL as PIC) the the mandatory TPP pax. insurance would not apply, it's just not worth the risk, to not take the CYA out.
Tootle pip!!
PS: Re. CAO's, are signed into existence by the CASA CEO, they do need assent of the Executive Council/G-G, but are, nevertheless, disallowable documents.
One halfway reasonable criticism of OLDP is delays due to workload and Government priorities, with aviation at the end of the far queue .
As you will probably have seen, Minister Albanese measures effective government by the volume of new legislation pumped out, along with the burgeoning bureaucracy to administer/enforce it.
By this measure the Gillard lead ( as in lead weight sinker) Labor government is the most effective federal government since 1901. A veritable avalanche of regulation. Has this government ever found a problem, to which their answer was not a new tax and/or new regulation.
Last edited by LeadSled; 9th Feb 2012 at 00:23.