Aww... Jezz Sarksi,
Paperwork!!..and CAsA is complaining they cant find a file in a myriad of files.
Have you seen how much paperwork is involved in maintaining a simple, low end of the complicated scale, class A aircraft? Mate we are running out of room in the hangar storing the stuff, we'll be maintaining the fleet in the paddock soon. If we ever have a fire it'll burn for weeks!!
Then there's all the shelfware you have to produce, notwithstanding the Part A com with more pages than the bible ( That's because there are more reg's than the bible...and I thought we only had to comply with ten!
Then an FCOM, Part B, CTS for each aircraft...nothing less than 400 pages is acceptable, that's aside from the opening statement that regardless of what you put in it, the Flight Manual takes precedence ( So what's it For??)
Then part C which bastardizes a simple reg relating to maintaining flight standards into something that nobody could ever afford...fourteen pages of tick in the box "aeroclub Whalla" crap which ends up costing a company around twenty grand just to employ a pilot on a basic piston twin, close to thirty on a turbo prop, and fifty plus on a jet...regardless of their past experience or currency.
And all this bullsh..t is useful for is creating hangmans nooses to pillory you with at the next audit!!..no wonder people are reluctant to apply for Chief Pilot or Check and training positions, they a poison Chalices that can and do lead to the favourite CAsA branding.."NAFAPP...Not a fit and proper person? Okay I know don't mention the war, but didn't someone we went to war with, brand their undesirables with a tatoo before shipping them to the gas chambers.