It just goes to show how fundamentally different the culture of Australia is compared to that of the USA.
In the USA, individual freedom is at the heart of the culture. The country became and remains great
because of each individual’s freedom to determine his or her own destiny. The kid training in the 152, the millionaire in the G5 and the 737 all get the same priority. They
are the county. The government is grudgingly tolerated and held in constant suspicion.
In Australia, you’re all just subjects to be regulated by the government! The government is the country. The government decides what’s ‘in the public interest’. If it’s expedient for the government, it magically becomes the public interest to do it, and individuals can just go and get stuffed (or, as happens very frequently, move to the USA ….)
The three day period for broken equipment does I agree smack of the airlines wanting to have their cake and eat it to. The military thing is just as hard to defend.
Yup. I can think of stronger words than “hard”.
This whole thing is just another Part 61. Its not properly thought through. Time they saw sense and delayed implementation the way they did with that. Would make more sense just to do it on the same timetable as the Yanks. At least technology options would exist that might even be affordable.
Yup.
Currently in the US there is FEDERALLY FUNDED FINANCE Programs available at 2% to upgrade your aircraft with ADSB capable equipment.
This encourages the operator to not only comply with the requirements but also fix upgrade their whole nav suite.....
Is it no wonder that there are compliance issues here where there is no support of the industry by the government and regulator in order to achieve compliance.
Yup. The Yanks have this crazy idea that if they are proposing to force something on an individual so that someone else gets a benefit, they’re obliged to sweeten the deal. In Australia, if the individuals disadvantaged don’t have enough political clout to change a government, they can go and get stuffed.
Dick: Remember when you were threatening to support Tony Windsor to run against John Anderson in his comfy House of Reps seat? That’s when the government pretended to take you seriously and gave you lots of aviation things to play with. It was, after all, ‘in the public interest’.
My suggestion is that if you want your ideas about ADSB to be implemented, you’d better start looking for someone popular to run against Warren Truss.
