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As the title suggests a thread for comment & updates on the latest from AOPA's Project Eureka...  

First from off the 'Forsyth report - IOS monitoring of progress':

Sky Wars - The Force awakens - GA uprising?? Bring it on! 

 {Hint 4 Boyd: This bloke/roadblock needs to be escorted from the building ASAP}

From off the Oz this AM it would appear the troops are mobilising finally

From the Prez De Stoop.. :

Excellent post Ferryman, I see it has already been blogged - Some fell on rocky places - good call & title...

Thought I would add to the discussion (with permission - TY Sandy ) from an intercepted email chain, between MdS & Sandy, the topic - 'Project Eureka' of course :

Marc,


As a member of AOPA for some forty-five years and dismayed at the death by a thousand cuts by government of what was our perfectly good GA industry, I am happy to have my name published. Marc I really appreciate your forthright approach to the reforms that are required. 

Great to see AOPA taking the fight up to government for our rights to fly. 

I would like to see AOPA make the following points part of our non negotiable minimum demands before we give any respect to CASA, let alone detailed cooperation.

1.  Formally eschew the outdated notion that government confers "privileges" of flight to a free people, our right to fly is part of our right to life and pursuit of happiness.

2.   Demand of government an amendment to the Civil Aviation Act that adds the well being and efficiency of the aviation industry.

3.   Take immediate action to reduce the medical requirements for private pilots in line with the low weight.  category as in car driving standards, and as in the US movement to delete the Cl

4.    Instigate a moratorium on the compulsory SIDs program. 

5.    Allow instructors to teach without our super expensive unnecessary Air Operator Certificate, as in the US 70% pilots taught by individual instructors.

6.   Allow LAMEs to work without C of A in field maintenance.

7.   Delete the strict liability provisions from the rules.

We must make it crystal clear to government that we will not abide by anything but root and branch reform. No more polite talks or time wasting fiddling at the edges or picking over minutiae through thousands of pages of strict liability straight jacket rules.

We must make it clear that action is required now, no more talk.

Finally, could we get a large meeting organised  in Canberra next year when Parliament is sitting with help from MPs to promote our growth policies for GA? 

Kind regards,

Sandy Reith

10,000 hr former aircraft and airport owner operator IFR Chief Flying Instructor, CASA approved license testing, Chief Pilot, RPT, charter, freight, flying school 

AOPA #17871

&..also from SR:

..I like Marc's use of Eureka as the name of the AOPA campaign, we are just as unfairly treated as the celebrated Ballarat miners and we will take the fight up to government in the same vigorous way, but without the guns.

I'm very keen that people now understand that "engaging with the regulator" is just playing into their hands, worse than a waste of time.

Without some major reforms in the immediate future the industry will simply sink further into the mire. You may have already seen my favourite letter, see attachment, but it's worth revisiting and should be shoved under the respective noses of Mr. Skidmore and Mr. Truss, or any well meaning but deluded CASA apologists. Wouldn't be difficult because the latter number would fit comfortably in a Pawnee's hopper ( I know what you're thinking).

We should be looking at demolishing a number of other shibboleths, like flight time log book keeping for private pilots (not needed for car journeys) after we do away with medicals for private flying. We should have a list, yesterday's revolutionary idea, if sensible, becomes today's accepted orthodoxy. I think it's starting to dawn on me that we have put up with a huge amount of costly nonsense in a herd instinct manner or because it wasn't too onerous, and it made us special, and we did not have time to worry...

   

MTF...P2