[thorn bird]

A very sad and infuriating example of what could have been, your sentiments are very poignant Gobbles.
Unfortunately its not the first and unless there are changes to the very fundamentals in way our industry is governed, it won't be the last.
Aviation is a passion, there will always be people like the Goads with a dream. It is so very tragic that to realise that dream they have to take it to someone else's country.

Where's an Australian "Trump" when you need one? When are those self serving idiots in Cant'berra going to be bought to account and our industry brought back from the wilderness.
This is just another classic example of what happens when arrogant, inept, incompetent clowns are not kept in check by political masters. Australian entrepreneurial brilliance gets exported to foster and promote someone else's
industry.
It IS a national disgrace Gobbles, and at the head of it a certain pumpkin headed mandarin.