Yes indeed, another Fort Fumble screw up. The incompetence of these buffoons knows no bounds. Phelans article gets straight to the point - Fort Fumble incompetence or the systematic buggery of GA? Probably a bit of both I suspect.
CAO 100.5 and its replacement wording are close indeed. It would seem the 'massagers of all rules aviation' have excelled themselves yet again by creating confusion and uncertainty across the sector. Never mind, regs are a game. A game to be played by bored incompetents who enjoy 'playing god with aviation'. Either way GA will pay the price yet again, in one way or the other, literally by way of costs or physically when Inspector Plod splits your ring gear in half as he leaps out of the bushes and jams his jackboot up your clacker quicker than a CAsA executive diving into a trough!
The Jackboots are on, CAsA Inspector Plod is warming up and ready to launch into various unsuspecting GA outfits. Beware, this is what is coming to a remote rural aerodrome, farmers paddock or maintenance shed near you;
Cairns, Bankstown or Townsville;