"Just last year, the Queensland Chamber of Commerce estimated (1) that red-tape compliance costs are equal to 10 per cent of a local independent supermarket's daily takings, (2) that red tape adds an additional $20 to $30 per head to the cost of a wedding at a function centre, (3) that red tape adds approximately five per cent to the average cost of a meal at a restaurant, and (4) that red tape and government fees and charges represent approximately a quarter, 25 per cent, of the ticket price for a regional tourist attraction. A report by Jobs Australia found there were over 3,000 pages of Job Services Australia rules. Indeed, these rules required paper records to be kept of all applications made through Job Services Australia. This left one provider requiring over 330 filing cabinets."
Sarcs, the lot above are lucky,
How bout $100K to include a light jet on your AOC,
How bout $20K just to provide a job for someone on a light piston twin,
How bout $60K to obtain an international endorsement on your AOC which includes a long weekend for an FOI and his AWI mate business class to Darwin.
Three nights at the Casino and of course the "Joy Flight"...err sorry "Proving Flight" to an international destination of their choice in a "Luxury" corporate jet.
If Miniscule WUSS cant see what is blatant Corruption on a very high level then he's a bigger fool than I though he was.
In the end, after expending all that Cash, those poor buggers got an International AOC that they cant use.
Unless they do a "Joy Flight"...errr sorry "Proving Flight" to each destination they want to operate to.
Heard of Local councils begging AOC holders to operate RPT to their airports. The answer being No unless you can find someone to toss half a million into our account to cover the cost of "Compliance"
What the Wuss doesn't realize is he could get on the gravy train and get his GA Flights for free if he hooked up CAsA to require "Proving Flights" to wherever he wants to go, that is if CAsA can find anyone still in business to persecute.
CAsA has taken the finest traditions of British Bureaucracy and refined them into an art form, even the Indians pale into insignificance compared with CAsA.