Im thinking of writing to the media under my real name, suggesting, with only a little tongue in cheek, that since Australia no longer manufactures cars, we can dispense totally with the expense associated with Australian design rules.
Not only that, why do we have "Australian Standards" for things such as Motorcycle safety helmets? Surely Europe and America have done ten times the testing we have.
Aviation regulation is a case in point, why do we employ people to write "Australian Aviation Regulations" when there is at least One perfectly good set available for free at zero cost? ANd that set (FAA regs) has been developed and tested to a level we could never hope to attain ourselves. Is the air in Australia different? Almost all Australian aircraft are imported and they are designed to FAA standards, so why reinvent the wheel?
Surely it is time to put these regulatory Oxygen Thieves out of work?
Absent a major political campaign these bastards are going to kill general, sport and recreational aviation stone dead.