But TB, you lack the necessary experience to give you the wisdom and - let's call it for what it is -
sheer guts to issue a directive that says: "aviation safety regulations must be shown to be necessary".
Think of the momentous occasion that it must have been when Mr Skidmore signed a piece of paper with those words.
A piece of paper!
With those words!
And more words!
Called a directive!
Imagine all the CASA people slapping their own foreheads and gazing skywards: "If only we'd been directed to do that before! Finally we can stop making aviation safety regulations that have been shown to be unnecessary."
It cracks me up. I can just imagine the conversations that duchessed Mr Skidmore into falling for it. But he isn't the first and won't be the last.