Dick, have you considered the cost of gaining and maintaining a instrument rating
in Australia on top of the costs involved in equipping and maintaining an IFR aircraft, compared to the USA?
Surly aircraft must be falling out of the sky all over the place over there, with all these improperly trained pilots and maintained aircraft.
Their not??..The US is actually a safer place to fly than Australia?..cant be they don't have enough rules that nobody can understand, CAsA should go and audit them and downgrade their airlines.