So Leftie it would seem that your advise is everyone should just move on, there's nothing here to see, as Australia's "world class" regulatory suite is the envy of the developed world, under which the industry will go from strength to strength? and of course generate safety outcomes that the world can only dream of.
Funny though. I have yet to find anyone in the industry who has that view, CAsA excepted of course, but they are not part of the industry.
Okay I'm prepared to make a little prediction.
If there is no change, GA within ten years, will cease to exist except for essential services which will need to be heavily subsidized by government.
Our domestic airlines will end up in foreign hands, be foreign registered, foreign maintained and crewed by foreigners, because our flying training will not be able to compete to provide the pilots and its three times cheaper to maintain aircraft on other countries maintenance reg's.
Just as our motor industry discovered, its hard to compete against a cost base four times lower than ours, so will the aviation industry.
Its incredible to think we sent people to NZ to help with their regulatory reform project, which they completed in around five years for around $5 million, and offered to sell their reg's to us for one million, but we rejected the offer to spend over 20 years and more than a quarter of a BILLION dollars to create "The envy of the World"
