There is a disconnect about expectations here that really concerns me. I will illustrate it with a story.
Many many years ago Lieutenant Wombat was an infantry Officer in the Citizen Military Forces - 2/6th Marsupials Battalion. I was running a recruit training course, the axis of such courses as many here would know, is to instill a military attitude to discipline in new recruits before they are let loose to play with firearms and high explosive. We do this in part by cynically toying with their expectations in an effort to instill some beneficial shared behaviours.
So one morning the little wombat recruits arrive after breakfast at the parade ground at S block - it's July and S block is known around Australia as an especially wind swept and freezing location in the already sub arctic Puckapunyal complex. My platoon Sergeant calls them to order and I inspect the troops; "Sergeant Jones", I say to my platoon sergeant, "I see that recruit Smith is missing his anorak this morning, see to it"; "Yes Sir" He replied. He saluted.
I turned and waddled off to the mess to warm up my frozen paws. Behind me I heard the predictable Jones: "We all want to look the same don't we?"; "Yes Sergeant!". "Recruit Smith hasn't got his Anorak on has he?"; "No Sergeant"." "Right, then everybody else take your anoraks off right now"!
Such is the military mind. It is not beyond possibility that CASA will respond to whining about RAA by simply removing what privileges the RAA currently enjoys, that would be a good bureaucratic joke. No more self certification. No more owner maintenance. No more pilots certificates. Guess which approach is more attractive to CASA?
You expect to get the best of both worlds out of these entreaties. CASA is expert at solving problems by giving you the worst of the available options. Look no further than what was done to Angel Flight. Look at the new fuel rules. Consider the training fatalities associated with low level engine failure on takeoff practice. We seem to have masters whose joy is to take any bad situation and exult in making it worse.
Many many years ago Lieutenant Wombat was an infantry Officer in the Citizen Military Forces - 2/6th Marsupials Battalion. I was running a recruit training course, the axis of such courses as many here would know, is to instill a military attitude to discipline in new recruits before they are let loose to play with firearms and high explosive. We do this in part by cynically toying with their expectations in an effort to instill some beneficial shared behaviours.
So one morning the little wombat recruits arrive after breakfast at the parade ground at S block - it's July and S block is known around Australia as an especially wind swept and freezing location in the already sub arctic Puckapunyal complex. My platoon Sergeant calls them to order and I inspect the troops; "Sergeant Jones", I say to my platoon sergeant, "I see that recruit Smith is missing his anorak this morning, see to it"; "Yes Sir" He replied. He saluted.
I turned and waddled off to the mess to warm up my frozen paws. Behind me I heard the predictable Jones: "We all want to look the same don't we?"; "Yes Sergeant!". "Recruit Smith hasn't got his Anorak on has he?"; "No Sergeant"." "Right, then everybody else take your anoraks off right now"!
Such is the military mind. It is not beyond possibility that CASA will respond to whining about RAA by simply removing what privileges the RAA currently enjoys, that would be a good bureaucratic joke. No more self certification. No more owner maintenance. No more pilots certificates. Guess which approach is more attractive to CASA?
You expect to get the best of both worlds out of these entreaties. CASA is expert at solving problems by giving you the worst of the available options. Look no further than what was done to Angel Flight. Look at the new fuel rules. Consider the training fatalities associated with low level engine failure on takeoff practice. We seem to have masters whose joy is to take any bad situation and exult in making it worse.