Aussie Bob;
I've left your post go all day hoping someone would correct your assertion about 20 years in the bosom of CAsA. Nobody has challenged you and left uncorrected would become fact by modern journalistic practice. I would suggest your claim would include Dick Smith, Boyd Munroe, Bill Hamilton, Tony Mitchell, Jim Dawson, Bob Murphie, Chris McKeown, and a plethora of others.
All the above would challenge you and have good cause. CAsA grant exemptions, AOPA could only in the wildest of dreams present this as cause for a regulatory reform program. Intermediaries at AOPA have walked both sides of the fence and it gives me some happiness to know they are no longer there.
Facts please or be doomed as a literary prostitute.