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Sandy's response to this week's LMH and that WOFTAM CASA survey?? - 

Via the AP emails:

Hitch has pointed to a number of the obvious concerns about CASA's Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey. This worn out idea is a waste of time and money as shown by the previous survey which tried to say that there was some half satisfaction by some half of the respondents.

Clearly there’s no real real effort to allow General Aviation (GA) its rightful place as an ordinary free enterprise industry contributing to our prosperity and security. One only has to go back to the hopeful days of the Forsyth Report in 2014 where some 35 recommendations were adopted by Government but never carried through by CASA. That review garnered 269 submissions from an excellent cross section of the GA community including submissions from most of the various aviation associations. The next call for submissions came from Senator McDonald’s Parliamentary committee which decided to delve into the woes of GA, an inquiry to take two years which fizzled out with practically no result at the last change of government. This one garnered only around 70 submissions. One could reasonably ask why bother with any surveys from any government source when experience shows that there will be no real progress until Parliament resumes responsibility and a Minister is persuaded to act.

Unfortunately the current dysfunctional, costly and extremely restrictive criminal sanction rules have been in place for so long there aren’t many left in the GA community who understand how much has been lost, and there’s many more who prefer to stay ‘under the radar’ for fear of running foul of the CASA police. It’s sad what’s happened, CASA’s surveys serve no purpose except to make work and look concerned.

If this was not true you would have the weight increase to 760 Kg in the low weight Recreational category, medical certification reform and individual instructors teaching flying. The latter without the complexities and expenses of the Air Operators Certificate, and all these measures should have been in place years ago.
    

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