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“Australia is part of the global effort to introduce this exciting new technology and we see industry collaboration as a key to its successful implementation.

************************. Industry collaboration? Ask Glen Buckley and the founders of Gippsland Aviation how CASA collaboration destroyed value.

"A CASA team with extensive aerodrome experience has set the ball rolling by examining what vertiports could look like, where and how they might operate as well as the safety requirements governing their design and operation.

**********************. expertise on display at Essendon, with perhaps unfortunate results.

"Within a month, we expect to release Australia's first draft advisory circular on the design of vertiports on our consultation hub."

*********************** which will be eagerly awaited by planners in Europe and the USA - NOT!

Spence also said that CASA was considering setting up a vertiport technical working group (TWG) to provide advice on regulation.

"We want industry working with us from the start of this process so this feedback will also go to a proposed vertiport design and operations technical working group (TWG) that the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel is considering establishing," she said.

*********************** since when does the rest of the world give the slightest credibility to CASA pronunciamentos??
Could I be forgiven for wondering if CASA has its own in-house drug and alcohol testing program?