[Sandy Reith]

"..What I will tell you is that the team leader applied repeatedly from 2015 to 2018 to be removed from the supervision of Mr Buckley's case because he felt that his team was wilting under the demands and behaviours of Mr Buckley and he felt that his team was captured..."

In my 55 years of flying, including my professional career in General Aviation(GA), one occasionally comes across a bureaucratic piece of outstanding nonsense. Poor darlings, do you for one minute think that any sane person with even a cursory knowledge of the art of deviation and obscurantism would swallow this pathetic excuse for what might well go down in the annals of Australia’s GA as the greatest worse example of bureaucratic bungling and embuggerence in Australia’s history?

Hard to believe to believe the stupidity, hubris and downright fascist behaviour of a Commonwealth instrumentality, albeit the notorious and ill fated experiment of thirty two years known as the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. The extraordinary salary factory that has wasted a whole industry, cost thousands of GA jobs and businesses and denied countless Australians the badly needed services of a healthy GA industry.