Tee Emm,
Perhaps as an aviation-child of FSA I see it in a similar way to the way you see the Aviation Safety Digest. Likewise perhaps as a product of the world of ever-present advertising I don't mind the self-promotion and advertising as I see it as a way to help pay the bills to keep the magazine alive.
If CASA really want to save money then they should stop printing stupid posters like those damned .02 posters which (despite their intent and despite the intent of the law) made it seem to the travelling public that pilots could rock up to work 'just a little bit drunk'. Or what about the anti-canibus ads, what a waste of paper those were (are flight crew really at risk of showing up to work high and if so is a poster really going to stop them?).
I have not been this angry and disappointed with CASA for a long time, to the contrary I was actually singing their praises at work this morning after CLARC surprised me with some really great customer service on a complex issue.
FRQ CB