Some more ideas for the real world.(Originally posted on the Thanks CASA post)
We need a very strong union. Most people think of knuckle draggers in the AWU or BLF or some water side union when strong unions are mentioned.
Actually the strongest union in Australia is the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Most don't associate them with knuckle dragging nor do many associate them with many losses in a stoush.
We need to form the APA (Australian Pilots Association) It should have a once only joining fee of $1,000 and all pilots should be strongly persuaded to join not by force but logic. Show the history of what has happened to perfectly innocent pilots and companies chewed up by an arrogant out of control administration. $1,000 is real cheap compared to a do it yourself defence.
If 30,000 pilots joined up we would have a $30 million fighting fund which could be used to defend pilots through the civil courts where only real evidence can be used. We could persue criminal CASA and ex CASA agents through the the courts where they have been found to have fabricated evidence.
We could act politically in marginal seats and highlight the utter waste non data based decisions cause. We could highlight the lunacy of spending 20 years and $200 million rewriting regulations in a language not understood by 99% of pilots and not available anyway.
We could push to adopt the FAA system and show how millions could be saved.
We might even bring about a miracle and see Warren Truss rise in Parliament and give a scintillating speech lighting the fire to bring these sorely needed changes to fruition. After all if Jabiru is not in his electorate it's not far away.
But first we have to light a fire among our fellow pilots. If things keep going the way they're heading Australia will only have Military and Airline flying.
We we need to return to government of the people by the people FOR the people and not have the CASA system where it's government of aviation by CASA for CASA.
