Arr, yes, the old "suggested mandatory" trick. Rubbish, mandatory ADS-B for VFR will not happen in Austrlia in any of our lifetimes. Read your email Leadsled (AS 16/06) and stop spreading furphies.
Bloggs,
My dear chap, you really should read the reports of the most recent statements by the DAS.
The above being an "update" of a statement made to myself and several others in terms of " if I had my way" or words to that effect.
Indeed, the members of ASAC regard the "mandatory" being inevitable, and in the not too far distant future, certainly withing my life expectancy. See also the CASA project on the subject of "voluntary ---- VFR ADS-B" just publicly released, CASA
Standards Development project: AS 16/06 --- you will find it on the CASA website, if it is up and running.
Why would there be?
There shouldn't, but since when did that stop the nonsense in Canberra, where cost is never a consideration for those who will never pay it.
Tootle pip!!