After 33 years of abject failure with the current structure the main change that’s necessary must be the exercise of Ministerial power. Wait for CASA? Forgot that, it could but it won’t and in a way it shouldn’t because its the Minister’s job.
Strategic initiatives? There’s not been the slightest change of course by the CASA juggernaut. In spite of utterance from Governments, Ministers, Forsyth recommendations, or any of the long, long list of alphabet bodies and many highly qualified individuals that have submitted reams and reams of strategic initiatives.
As rightly said, Xmas looms and so does election year, if nothing from Barnaby you can kiss GA sweet dreams as it slides further down the drain waiting for a Minister who may think it worthwhile to rescue what’s left of it. Could be years or never.
By then a few rich folk, some ag, some government contractors, some rotary wing and RAAUS with it’s tiny planes and CASA will be about all that’s left of a once exceptionally useful Aussie industry. Practically all our higher technical and support engineering will all be sourced outside of Australia. Airports we are losing, and no thought of GA and it’s airports as National security assets, and we’ll soon be turning again to import airline pilots.
I doubt that anyone in CASA is looking but I know we are exporting many of what’s left of our GA fleet. Bringing them back will cost us dearly, assuming it will be economically feasible.
There’s only one initiative worth anything, action now by Minister Barnaby Joyce.
Strategic initiatives? There’s not been the slightest change of course by the CASA juggernaut. In spite of utterance from Governments, Ministers, Forsyth recommendations, or any of the long, long list of alphabet bodies and many highly qualified individuals that have submitted reams and reams of strategic initiatives.
As rightly said, Xmas looms and so does election year, if nothing from Barnaby you can kiss GA sweet dreams as it slides further down the drain waiting for a Minister who may think it worthwhile to rescue what’s left of it. Could be years or never.
By then a few rich folk, some ag, some government contractors, some rotary wing and RAAUS with it’s tiny planes and CASA will be about all that’s left of a once exceptionally useful Aussie industry. Practically all our higher technical and support engineering will all be sourced outside of Australia. Airports we are losing, and no thought of GA and it’s airports as National security assets, and we’ll soon be turning again to import airline pilots.
I doubt that anyone in CASA is looking but I know we are exporting many of what’s left of our GA fleet. Bringing them back will cost us dearly, assuming it will be economically feasible.
There’s only one initiative worth anything, action now by Minister Barnaby Joyce.