The 9 month delay is a smart move, despite our having to endure the 'old' system for a time longer...
Our training organisation, holding regular team meetings to discuss and develop understanding of the new structure, came up with pages of questions that were simply unanswerable or stonewalled by CASA employees. This leads me to think the actual reason there is a delay is not the industries inability to adapt in time, but CASA's inability to effectively interpret and disseminate their own proposed changes.
Talk about a completely disjointed operation. Who is writing these rules and not telling the rest of CASA about it???