What you guys fail to realise is that CAsA does not give a toss whether your making money or not, nor are they required to. They don't care if the tourist industry is collapsing, or half the population thrown out of work. Their brief is "Safety" and the reason for this is we, the industry, let them do a snow job on the pollies to ensure thats all they have to consider. On another thread there is Mc Comics submission to the Truss review., read it and weep if you can avoid throwing up, but it illustrates there is faint hope of reforming anything connected to CAsA. The Aviation Industry surges ahead in Kiwiland, Airline making record profits, maintenance organisations expanding, flying training booming. Compare them with us, then read their Regulations that McComic ridicules, No wonder so many in the world are adopting them, they are effective, clear, concise and business friendly, and they are achieving better safety outcomes than ours.
Possum, you are going to invest your capital, time and energy to set up a business based on a bureaucrat's opinion of what the regs mean?
All fine until a new FOI turns up with a different opinion. These are "Criminal" offences we are talking about.