Study and study harder……. lost more to find.
To be fair, it was not all that hard for ATSB and CASA to bluff their way out of it. Who was there going to do the critical thinking and challenge the BS presented. Sir Doug (deserves a knighthood for this and many other things) singlehandedly exposed the can of worms. History of this would be very different had he not.
I would like to write a book on it, and I best do so in the next year or three while folk remember what happened. I might sell 300 copies even.
When I bought JD's ticket earlier this year for a trip down under we joked about a fake name….just so he could sneak into Oz undetected by ATSB/ CASA. At the first course one CASA guy was there, but fortunately he was one of the good guys
We seriously joked about it……I am sure there are some that wish that article never saw the light of global aviation media day.