05-17-2021, 08:17 AM
Ain't it sad and pathetic and more to the point how incredibly corrupt the administration of regulation from the top down and the bottom up is in Australia. The regulator itself admitting that the arbitrary restrictions it placed upon Angel Flight would have zero impact on safety. If that is the case what were they for? and why impose them? Is CASA saying there is something terribly wrong with the standards of Australian private pilots? If this is true then they are admitting that they themselves are at fault for not raising those standards. Of course that hypothesis is hogwash alone with their knee jerk restrictions. I often wonder if CASA reacted because of lobbying from quasi commercial "Charities" more interested in the holy dollar than being of service.
In the USA Angel Flight is just one group of many, undertaking community service flights for many varied reasons.
Angel Flight USA safely conduct over thirty five thousand such flights a year alone, a vital lifeline to their communities.
People donate their time and aircraft as a service to their communities, it also provides a means, or excuse, if you like to commit aviation, which in itself makes things safer because currency, it could be said, is perhaps the greatest safety benefit of all, it also encourages pilots to upgrade their skills and qualifications. A very large percentage of US private pilots hold instrument qualifications, not so in Australia, our regulations make that a very expensive exercise.
Everywhere you look aviation is under siege, from regulation to airports to the very air we fly in, all from entities with no interest than the buck they can make.
In the USA Angel Flight is just one group of many, undertaking community service flights for many varied reasons.
Angel Flight USA safely conduct over thirty five thousand such flights a year alone, a vital lifeline to their communities.
People donate their time and aircraft as a service to their communities, it also provides a means, or excuse, if you like to commit aviation, which in itself makes things safer because currency, it could be said, is perhaps the greatest safety benefit of all, it also encourages pilots to upgrade their skills and qualifications. A very large percentage of US private pilots hold instrument qualifications, not so in Australia, our regulations make that a very expensive exercise.
Everywhere you look aviation is under siege, from regulation to airports to the very air we fly in, all from entities with no interest than the buck they can make.