From CASA's brochure for the FLOT (Flight Crew Licensing Operations and Training) Conference in 2003:
Quote:
CASA is proposing new general operating flight rules, and new
regulations for air transport operations - small aeroplanes and
rotorcraft, aerial work operations, aerial agricultural operations, flight
crew licensing and flight training organisations. The new, simplified
regulations align, as far as possible, with ICAO and aim to achieve a
better safety outcome with reduced compliance costs.
So what exactly is the purpose of aligning, or in CASA's case, copying ICAO regs? last i knew, ICAO was a guiding set of regs, allowing individual NAA's the ability to write their own regs to suit their environment? but still remain compliant in that their regs will be accepted by other ICAO signatories?
so if we were already ICAO compliant, in that regard, and have been for some decades, why are CASA constantly changing? much to the detriment, and pretty much total destruction of the industry? and why have we not seen 1 safety case justifying these changes other than "to make us more in line with ICAO requirements"?