The point is this:
GA will continue to wither on the vine unless we get more of the General Public involved and interested. We need a nice, quiet TV campaign that highlights what GA does for Australia and what Australia will lose when GA disappears.
We need to focus on PEOPLE telling PEOPLE what GA delivers to their lives (think of the adverts every election with the average family asking Mr Abbott or Mr Howard how they are going to survive after his cuts to medicare)
TV Adverts aren't that hard or that expensive to make, and in many time slots (especially in rural and regional Australia) they are quite cheap to broadcast.
Unfortunately, Aviation seems to be made up of a large group of strokers who are offended they ae called "Tech Crew" not "Captain, Sir" and that "plane" is offensive because it infers they are a carpenter, not a sky god.
The layman refers to that machine out there as a PLANE.
When he looks up he sees a PLANE.
When he jumps on Jetstar he catches a PLANE.
When he comes to have a flying lesson in a PLANE and you tell him "actually no, it's an AEROPLANE", he'll say "Righto w*nker I'll go buy a JETSKI instead".
Jesus christ.
