02-23-2024, 04:28 PM
Class 5 medical, what a dog’s breakfast.
How did those brilliant minds pick 2000kg? All this cleverly designed regulation only took about two years and thousands of hours, a supreme example of cogitation, not to mention the total waste of time by the some 600 respondents to CASA’s ‘consultation’ make work process.
What would all that amount to? All the inputs per hour of all concerned? A few $ million down the drain no doubt.
No aerobatics or formation flying for C5 but the gliding fraternity and RAAUS with no medicals are fine. But let’s discourage C5 pilots from improving their skills and providing work for instructors and flying schools.
The pick-a-box weight limit, or, pin the tail on the donkey, wouldn’t be hard to find one of those.
Let’s go with 2000 kg., that’s a nice round figure! We all agreed except one.
So you can fly with your single passenger in a six seat Piper twin Seneca 1 but not the Seneca 2. You can fly early model Cessna 337 but not the later model. Or a Beech TravelAir but not the near identical systems Baron.
You can now fly your Cessna 7/8 seat Cessna 207 but with only one passenger.
Kate Manderson thinks their C5 covers 73% of the fleet, doesn’t she realise that most of those are four and six seat aircraft?
And like the blighted Basic Class 2, unlike the USA BasicMed, IFR is forbidden. And just in case anyone forgets the crowing about the wonderful Basic Class 2 ‘reform’ of five or six years ago just remember that its ‘unconditional heavy vehicle’ requirement means ok to drive a truck load of avgas through any city on a (common) conditional driver licence but not fly your Cessna anywhere.
Next time we see a VFR into IMC accident and people die, do not forget that our ‘safety’ regulator discriminates against the take up of the Instrument Rating. C5 restrictions encourages pilots to stop flying IFR and discourages IFR training. In turn less work for flying schools, maintenance firms and parts suppliers which inevitably leads to higher overall costs. Flying by the Instrument Flight Rules is the safest and most efficient form of X-country flying.
Yes CASA has done it again, another Clayton’s reform, the reform you are having when you are not having one, and no one predicted it would be so bad. A new low point in the history of the CASASTROPHE.
How did those brilliant minds pick 2000kg? All this cleverly designed regulation only took about two years and thousands of hours, a supreme example of cogitation, not to mention the total waste of time by the some 600 respondents to CASA’s ‘consultation’ make work process.
What would all that amount to? All the inputs per hour of all concerned? A few $ million down the drain no doubt.
No aerobatics or formation flying for C5 but the gliding fraternity and RAAUS with no medicals are fine. But let’s discourage C5 pilots from improving their skills and providing work for instructors and flying schools.
The pick-a-box weight limit, or, pin the tail on the donkey, wouldn’t be hard to find one of those.
Let’s go with 2000 kg., that’s a nice round figure! We all agreed except one.
So you can fly with your single passenger in a six seat Piper twin Seneca 1 but not the Seneca 2. You can fly early model Cessna 337 but not the later model. Or a Beech TravelAir but not the near identical systems Baron.
You can now fly your Cessna 7/8 seat Cessna 207 but with only one passenger.
Kate Manderson thinks their C5 covers 73% of the fleet, doesn’t she realise that most of those are four and six seat aircraft?
And like the blighted Basic Class 2, unlike the USA BasicMed, IFR is forbidden. And just in case anyone forgets the crowing about the wonderful Basic Class 2 ‘reform’ of five or six years ago just remember that its ‘unconditional heavy vehicle’ requirement means ok to drive a truck load of avgas through any city on a (common) conditional driver licence but not fly your Cessna anywhere.
Next time we see a VFR into IMC accident and people die, do not forget that our ‘safety’ regulator discriminates against the take up of the Instrument Rating. C5 restrictions encourages pilots to stop flying IFR and discourages IFR training. In turn less work for flying schools, maintenance firms and parts suppliers which inevitably leads to higher overall costs. Flying by the Instrument Flight Rules is the safest and most efficient form of X-country flying.
Yes CASA has done it again, another Clayton’s reform, the reform you are having when you are not having one, and no one predicted it would be so bad. A new low point in the history of the CASASTROPHE.