What do CASA actually do? Anything at all?
Good question and one that a lot of individuals on pprune have a lot of opinions on and have in the past voiced quite openly!!
In the area of 'high risk' recreational aviation activities the regulator wishes to keep such risk taking at arm's length, hence the philosophy of self regulation for groups like the RAA, Warbirds and the APF.
Is this mentality working??..I'll let you be the judge of that. However in one sense it is working for the CAA as they have a 'no care', 'no responsibility', which takes care of their biggest fear...'
liability'!