Last thing I want to do is go into politics. But what do you do when Mr Abbott and Mr Truss get voted in on a policy of removing red tape and unnecessary costs and then allow CASA and AsA to do the opposite.
I see the General Aviation Industry in Australia being destroyed .
Imagine a fire station at Ballina with 17 staff and a$12 m building and not even a Unicom to reduce the chance of an accident in the first place!
And every cent of this cost comes out of our industry as well as a profit percentage to the Government .
In the USA , Canada and NZ the fire stations are run by the airport with everyone multi skilled- cost is about 50% of our cost. That was the Coalition policy 10 years ago but now forgotten.
Part 61 was not needed to address any known safety problem.
I started the Regulatoty Reform Program with Ron Cooper in 1990 with one instruction- remove every unnecesary cost. The opposite is now happening .
It is a nightmare. Any other suggestions on how I can assist our industry?
Last edited by Dick Smith; 12th Jun 2015 at 11:52.