CASA knew his history and took away his commercial license. That's all good - but surely they should have known that this would not stop him? It's bleeding obvious. As everyone seems to say - flying was his life. What else was he going to do? Kindergarten teacher?
I would have thought they should have taken
all licenses off him and ensured he wasn't still flying. A simple task to check I would have thought - just ring Hempels and arrange a joy flight and see who turns up???
Would they have the power to shut down his business? I would expect not if there are/were others there who could fly?
I wonder if CASA had their time over again if they would do things differently. Are they doing things differently now? Probably not as that would be an admission that they need to change.......
I don't know - it's all just too hard.
TB
