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This cannot possibly be true, it sounds far too easy, too sensible, efficient and probably not that costly.

Setting a very bad example to regulators everywhere and causing AVMED some blips to conscience, perhaps.

You would have to wonder how many years for Parliament to wake up to the waste and mismanagement by CASA in it’s excruciating and costly methods. For myself it is particularly galling, almost every year there’s some glitch in obtaining my Class 2. Having many years ago had a medical op with no prior or post op problems affecting my fitness to fly, I’ve been required to extra expense every year. My GP gives me a clean report, my DAME has no problem. A former DAME told me that other pilots with worse histories than mine were getting two year Class 2s.
At long last CASA Director Shane Carmody is trying to ease the AVMED pain with some reforms which is welcome even with glaring flaws (i.e. not for NGT or IFR, therefore incentive to drop or not gain the higher qualifications).
This year my two months grace has run out again due to AVMED incompetence. So another waste of time and angst is in the offing.

CHAIRMAN, glad to help. I think CASA’s fees a fair comparison so I should adopt something similar. Probably about $185/hr these days, say minimum three hours consultation plus GST and data expenses would be ok. Let’s round it out to $600 which is only the cost of a couple of ASICS when its all said and done. Pretty reasonable wouldn’t you say?
When you consider the senior instructor near me who applied for a flying school AOC and had cough up $8000 up front just to lodge the application. Two years ago and still no joy, only wanted to restart a school that’s been going for at least 40 years in a regional centre.
A little off topic but everyone should be under no illusions of how dire is the state of GA. The new rules for flying schools have to be completed by August and numbers of the remaining few will fold because they are being required to employ extra staff for admin procedures mandated by the idiots in CASA.
Meanwhile Minister McCormack won’t be ‘rushed’ into agreeing with the most commonsense, simple and necessary amendment to the Act which would require CASA to consider viability in conjunction with safety. A first step towards halting the steepening decline of GA.

From the ‘subline’ to the ridiculous. Never mind the piston engines, what about the batteries? It was the practice to build them for the life of the sub, but then perhaps different batteries, now Li-on or some new experiment?? Maybe talk to Elon for a great deal.

I hear that in the US you can instruct flying in some cases without any aviation medical. It would make perfect sense if your student was solo or had a basic licence already. But to imagine sense or commonsense has any place in administration of aviation in Beauracratalia is to fly in the face of facts.

The Stockholm syndrome plays out so well, we get a whiff of Carmody’s medical reform ideas and isn’t that great ?Instructors might be able to work with a Class 2 medical, how wonderful. Does the same person drive a car to work or the DAME’s surgery? The whole set up is so stupid, you can’t help wondering when people will wake up to the current bureaucratic palace of fantasy, a colossal edifice of waste and mismanagement.

Treat aviation like other forms of transport, straightforward rules and then let people get on and make business and services. Common law and market economics, the latter much aided by the information revolution, will sort the details. Ring, write, email your federal MP and Senators is one necessary way if we are to achieve any sanity.