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Clinton McKenzie new Director AOPA Oz - 

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VERTIPORTS… MORE CASA REGULATIONS, MEANWHILE CRITICAL REFORM LAY STAGNANT

AOPA Australia CEO Benjamin Morgan responds to the CASA Briefing this week!

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OPINION:  VERTIPORTS, HELIPORTS OR AIRPORTS, AVIATION NEEDS REFORM ACTION NOW!

To follow on from Ben’s commentary on Vertiports;
 
An article was published in August of this year, informing of a proposed development at Caribbean Gardens in Melbourne for a new Vertiport facility. The question is where are you going to? Another vertiport? Where? How many of these vertiports are going to be needed?

These are supposed to improve logistics and regional connectivity! So is this why developers and the government are systematically destroying the General Aviation sector and associated infrastructure?

Doesn’t General Aviation support logistics, regional connectivity and provide a multitude of services that I don’t think our Government or regulators even understand?

How many politicians fly to airports around Australia?

I wonder if the Ministers jump in their private charter flights will like to jump in an electric air taxi and jump from vertiport to vertiport? So are there vertiports at all regional and suburban locations?

So by the time this all happens, even if it ever did the current industry and aviation infrastructure will be destroyed to the extent (and that is well on the way) that it seriously limits our logistics to many distant locations around Australia, a country with communities that seriously rely on and need aviation.

There will not even be available real-estate for this concept to be in enough locations to make it a viable option. Not to mention the cost of electricity!! This is nowhere near being well thought out.
Not a member of AOPA then please join so we can protect your airports, your logistics and your regional connectivity and your right to fly.

LORRAINE MACGILLIVRAY
Director and Membership Manager
Email:  lorraine@aopa.com.au

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