Originally Posted by thorn bird
Bankie, Clive's just being smart, if he's only using his aircraft privately why would he want to pay three times as much to maintain it if it was on the Australian register? Also much easier to sell overseas when he wants to upgrade, Australian reg's are not recognized elsewhere so selling an aircraft that's been maintained here becomes a nightmare and severely reduces its sale price. Get used to it the wealthy will more and more choose foreign registration as happened in Europe and the UK.
That's the thing
Either Clive himself has dealt with CASA and found out what a crock of **** CASA's regs are, or whoever works for him who manages his aircraft has, and probably told the big man about it.
Either way, it might be worth dropping him a line and pointing out that this symptomatic of the general state of affairs for aviation in Australia? Given he's got a direct interest in it it mightn't hurt, and he might even be up for some ****stirring over it in Cantberra
