It would be a tragedy if an incident like this resulted in the usual knee jerk reaction of increased regulation making the service unviable.
Hear! Bloody Hear!
It is just so frustrating to see members of the 'industry' who rail against CASA's regulatory micro-management calling for an increase in regulation by CASA. The 'industry' wants CASA to regulate all drones and to have greater powers to do so. Senators are doing impersonations of people with their hair on fire about it. Members of the 'industry' want CASA to increase the regulatory requirements for 'community service flights'.
Jesus wept. The bureaucracy loves this stuff.
For the people who want to trust the data: Great. What are the data?
How many community service flight and hours have been flown. What is the fatality per mission/hour flown ratio? Who decided that that ratio is unacceptable?
What is the opportunity cost of the reduction of available community service flights if increased regulation ruled out substantial numbers of volunteers?
Are you trying to guarantee fatality-free community service flights? If yes, there will be none. RPT aircraft have fatal accidents too.
Why don't we reduce the national speed limit to 10KPH? If it saved just one life, surely it would be worth it.
