Manymak,
What you say is completely true, IF you work for an airline.
But will the airlines in Australia be prepared to stump up the dosh.
Unfortunately there are other requirements under part 61 that as far as I can see will make attaining an Australian ATPL a very expensive business.
Will the airlines pay, or seek less expensive alternatives?
As the europeans discovered, one size fit all regulations, work fine for one segment of the industry, but are disastrous for another.
GA in Europe ended up like the Duchess at the ball who had the misfortune to drop an apocalyptically loud fart just at that unfortunate instant when a break occurred in background noise.
Thus the note echoed up into the rafters, you could hear a pin drop.
Salvation was at hand however, the ever loyal Jeeves the butler was on hand to shift the embarrassment to.
The Dutchess spun to face him with a glare like thunder and cried
"Jeeves, stop that!!"
Jeeves doleful reply?
"Yes Madam...which way did it go?"
The Europeans have finally woken up to their folly and are busily writing new GA focused regs. At the end of the day it all comes down to money. By killing off GA all they managed to do was make flags of convenience even wealthier, and any industry they had left even poorer.
Will our leaders wake up to CAsA's folly? or are there other motives in killing off an industry?
As my old Dad used to say "Follow the money" if things don't seem logical "Follow the Money!!"
Today all the secondary airports are in the hands of developers. The land was once publicly owned.
Take Bankstown as an example. Quite a few acres of undeveloped real-estate 10Km from the centre of Sydney, What price?? Millions?? a billion?
The only impediment to developers nivarna??? a bunch of ass out of their pants aviation enthusiasts, and a pesky lease document.
With billions on offer would anyone be surprised that some 'derri doing' has, and is going on??
Whats next? What price the national parks North and south of Sydney? McBank could for sure cobble together a consortium to buy them. The same logic used to justify the sale of our secondaries should work just as well for national parks.
Ahh... the opportunities are endless. Just find a Mandarin with influence, and a polly in need of campaign funds and away we go.
Last edited by thorn bird; 19th Dec 2014 at 07:53.