Glenb
I'm in Canada and about two years ago, Ontario brought in
Provincial legislation that basically overrode Federal Air Regs
with endless bureaucratic but useless requirements that
cut the number of schools doing instructor ratings from
something like 65 to 16.
It was a boost however for the other provinces.
I've been out of Aus for a long time and I had forgotten how
the Australian Bureaucratic cancer seems to always be getting worse
not better.
What I see as particularly shocking, its their ever escalating use of
their own bureaucratic language that has no purpose in the rest of the
world or society. It's a deliberate attempt to make it so complicated
that only they understand what they are talking about.
It does however open up marketing and business opportunities for those
who are able to do the translation between ordinary english and the
language of CASA.
In Ontario, each school that complies with the new expanded provincial legislation, generally is forced to employ such an expert who does nothing
but deal with the paperwork.
IN the USA, while the paperwork is incredibly long, it is however easy to understand and uses common English, expressions that CASA
would not want because it might mean that the average pilot might
understand what they are getting at.