Frank, exemptions issued on day one is indicative of a system that is flawed and being managed by complete idiots. CASA should have listened to the real experts out in industry who were telling them that part 61 was ****e, would impose a great burden upon those trying to comply, and that it would potentially ruin some areas of industry, helicopter operators for starters. But of course they wanted to save face, rush it out there and to hell with those it will effect (not them of course as they swan around and office drinking coffee an adjusting the office temperature). Dopes