It's probably a good thing that the Australian media only regurgitates fluffy press releases and leaves it at that. If the real investigative journalists or aviation press overseas ever cottoned on to way matters aeronautical are conducted in Australia we'd be downgraded and made a laughing stock. Any thorough investigation and exposure of any of the Pprune tales would be a potential Pulitzer winner for anyone ingenious and brave enough to investigate and could find a publisher with balls enough to print it. But, unfortunately, the journalists of the real world are happy to accept the outlandish notion that Australian aviation is as good as it gets, safe as houses and CASA does a great job. Bollocks.
For fairy tales and feel good spin stories, read press releases; for reality – start –
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