Originally Posted by Sunfish
The costs and regulatory burden are choking GA to death. Now I have to go finalise my ASIC paperwork...
That's the answer right there.
$1600 for CASA to issue an Experimental CoA.
$500+ for an hour of circuits at Warnervale
- in my own plane!
$200+ to issue an ASIC to prove I'm not a terrorist - and now I have to front up to an approved someone a hundred miles away to prove I am who I say I am, when the KRviatrix just got a new passport at the local Australia Post.
$10,000 for ADS-B in an experimental aircraft because we can't trust the Dynon or Garmin GPS source that the FAA says is perfectly adequate.
And let's not forget the vast majority of the GA fleet are older than anyone who will either fly, or fly
in them, and that is not necessarily a good look. About the only small GA operators I can see staying afloat in years to come are the meat-bombers and scenic flight operators.