[Sandy Reith]

As reported part of Dan Parsons’s argument regarding airport standards for charter aircraft might have validity for large capacity aircraft but could not possibly work for low capacity ad hoc charters. For at least thirty years there was a CASA thought bubble around that for any commercial flights the landing ground would need to meet strict criteria and that pilots should be checked on those airstrips before taking passengers. I kid you not. If that nonsensical notion has been laid to rest then that is a good thing. Example, a customer of mine wanted to view a vintage car on a farm, his paddock for landing on is described to me by phone by the owner, inspected by flyover in my Cessna 172, landed, concluded business and flew home.
However one glimmer of commonsense in an otherwise bleak regulatory landscape will no doubt be of academic interest only as most of General Aviation cannot survive the ever increasing stringencies from the out of control regulator bent on its path of bureaucratic perfection and to hell with free enterprise.