12-05-2021, 07:40 PM
Thornie, I am as passionate about aviation as all on this forum, having spent a lifetime in and around it being a LAME and PPL. I lived on LST airport in the early to mid 50s and had the total run of the airport. The only rule was to look out for taxiing aircraft and treat every prop as live. I climbed over Bristol Freighters and sat in every aero club aircraft. I went up the tower when my father was on duty and sometimes talked to the planes; I lived a little boys dream.
I have worked in the Pacific, NZ, PNG, Asia, India, Middle East, and Africa and held licences and validations from many of those countries including Swiss (pre EASA) and I found them very practical in their oversight.
Measuring Australian aviation against what I have seen in the rest of the world, aviation here is dead, the body is rapidly cooling and soon rigor mortis will set in and the last rites will be read.
I am now coming up 56 years in my trade and even though I am still doing some work, the passion is cooling. I do not know how to feel about it, angry, sad, disappointed and every other emotion. We have been regally done over by CASA and all sides of government and a distinct possibility a lab/green to finish it off.
I have worked in the Pacific, NZ, PNG, Asia, India, Middle East, and Africa and held licences and validations from many of those countries including Swiss (pre EASA) and I found them very practical in their oversight.
Measuring Australian aviation against what I have seen in the rest of the world, aviation here is dead, the body is rapidly cooling and soon rigor mortis will set in and the last rites will be read.
I am now coming up 56 years in my trade and even though I am still doing some work, the passion is cooling. I do not know how to feel about it, angry, sad, disappointed and every other emotion. We have been regally done over by CASA and all sides of government and a distinct possibility a lab/green to finish it off.