Kharon
Ken K is not the saviour you make out. In the late 90s he was the project lead in CASA for what we have today. Although not totally responsible his fingerprints are all over what came down the pipe.
He spat the dummy and had a 180 degree change and decided the outdated FAA regs were the way to go (the same regs the yanks are trying to reform themselves). He and a very small group of cronies that then formed AMROBA fought hard against the CASA reforms being led for a while by Joe Tully and later by Hondo Gratton (who both did a good job within the bounds of their responsibility).
Unfortunately the squeaky wheel got the grease (Ken's endless letters to Ministers and politicians) and CASA once it got the airline structure sorted lost interest in pursuing what was being referred to as the B3 licencing system, as well as other reforms, before they had been fully worked through.
As a result GA missed out on some pretty good ideas because it all got to hard for CASA. Hence we have a half arsed reform that GA needs to deal with today.... a lot of the blame sits with Ken K!
Last edited by hiwaytohell; 1st Aug 2012 at 23:20.