What does this mean for GA if anything?

[Homesick-Angel]

From The Age today..
More money for CASA?Is this a good thing or not, and will this affect GA or just RPTs?

Aviation fuel excise to go up from July

June 24, 2010 - 4:19PM
AAP
The excise on aviation fuel will go up 25 per cent from July, under draft laws passed by parliament.
The government announced in its May budget that it would seek to increase the excise by 0.702 cents to 3.556 cents a litre.
The $90 million expected to be raised by the measure during the next four years will go to regulator the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority.
It will be used to recruit almost 100 additional frontline CASA staff including safety specialists, safety analysts and airworthiness inspectors.
The extra revenue will also ensure that CASA can continue random testing for alcohol and drugs within the industry, invest in the development and maintenance of safety standards, and provide expanded training for staff.
Liberal frontbencher Ian Macdonald said the move surprised the aviation industry.
"The government had not contacted any aviation industry stakeholders on this issue before introducing the bill," he told parliament on Thursday.
But Senator Macdonald agreed that maintaining Australia's reputation for "safe skies" was important.
The Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 and a related bill now await royal assent.

[solowflyer]

Just what we need, more CASA staff trying to justify their existance :ugh:

[Jabawocky]

I would not mind if it was used for something worthy. :rolleyes:

[PA39]

It will be used on infrastructure.....to buy more shovels to try and dig our way out of the sh**t ! However, the hole is too deep.

[Horatio Leafblower]

You guys obviously haven't tried to get anything done by CASA lately.

The FOIs I know are all absolutely booked up months in advance, tied up in paperwork knots thanks to mis-management and games of political football.

I am finally going through the ATO approval process this month, two years after I first applied :ugh:

A simple addition of a flying school base took six months...:yuk:

I have no great love for the Regulator but more manpower may be a good thing.

[Jabawocky]

yeah....HB....Only if they are .................

J:ok:

[longrass]

Most likely nothing more than a 3c a L on fuel... As the article reads... Oh plus the fuel companies will need to make 200% on that...

[rmcdonal]

As posted earlier on a similar thread
The $90 million expected to be raised by the measure during the next four years will go to regulator the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority.
It will be used to recruit almost 100 additional frontline CASA staff
is just under $1Million each for the 100 or so new CASA employees. Now that's a good GA pay. :suspect::ok::ok:

[blackhand]

You guys obviously haven't tried to get anything done by CASA lately.
Agreed. Discussion with clarc reveal that they have "thousands" of applications for l;icencing coming across their collective desks each day.
This prevents them from being anything more than paper work clerks.
No longer are they able to contact people, as they are just "too" busy.

Cheers
BH

[airaholic]

Like I said trying to justify their existance. More unnessasary paperwork = more jobs = even more unnessasary paperwork it just goes on:ugh:

[Rich-Fine-Green]

May be an exageration;

I was told over a beer that a new AOC application these days can cost $10k-$20k upfront from CASA.

Plus cost of buying manual or self-writing a manual

Is this accurate?.

A far cry from (many) years ago when I paid CASA $500 for similar.....

[Horatio Leafblower]

A very basic AOC (CHTR+AWK) probably upwards from $5-8k.

It has cost us an additional $8k to add IFR and ME to our PPL/CPL/NVFR school approvals.

Wrote the manuals myself.

[gupta]

Discussion with clarc reveal that they have "thousands" of applications for licencing coming across their collective desks each day.


And how many Licences are out there at any one time??????

Bit like the $1m for each new CASA position - decimal point out by a couple of places??