Dick if you have a foot or two in the reality of private aviation, and then you read
the posts on pprune, I reckon about 50% of the posters in the Australian threads
are CAsA staff ardently working at polishing the turd.
The loss of face from so many experienced pilots and owners utterly ignoring the $30 million rewrite of the regs must be being sorely felt.
The problem has been in the past that CAsA was seen as the retirement home
of the ex-RAAF. that may have passed to some extent and now we have the era of the aero club flying instructors.
None of these people have ever really privately owned and maintained aircraft.
The reality we live in has never been experienced by these people and it shows.
CAsA is Australia's (poor excuse of a) national airworthiness authority.
How many competent aeronautical engineers are employed by CAsA?
I'll bet that it is a very round figure that looks like a wendy's donut.
the real tragedy is that these fckuwits don't realise how irretrievably incompetent they are.
we have a rough ride ahead. see you in prison :-)