I think creampuff has been right all along.
the hard core of casa have the politicians above them well understood and know that if they keep up a sufficiently complex smoke and mirrors act "in the interests of a higher sense of safety" then the politicians will be as dumb as dog **** and pass it all into law.
gone is all the common sense wisdom in aviation.
there were Tee shirts in bangkok that seem applicable to casa.
"do not believe what you know,
do not believe what you see.
believe what you are told.
OBEY"
the sad thing in all this is that the core of casa seem to believe what they publish. and of course they would they don't own aircraft and never fly as we do so they have no clue.
what I find most disturbing is that casa and safety are looking more and more like an islamic religion. the parallels are disturbing.