[thorn bird]

Quote:

"The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has told the Senate Inquiry into the General Aviation industry that complexity in regulations has not had a significant impact on stakeholders, according to a statement made public yesterday."

BWAA....HAW.....HAW....HAW.....SOB!

If that's not the most risible statement in the last half century its got to be close.

Of course, if the impact on "Stakeholders" is insignificant and there are plenty of "stakeholders" out there who would vehemently disagree with that, given the number running around with Stake in hand looking for someone to stab with it, what about the taxpayers? Half a billion bucks or so pissed up against the wall to achieve what exactly?

We could have had New Zealand's updated FAA, FAR's, that most of the nations pacific region have adopted, for a very good reasons.

Firstly they would have cost the Australian taxpayer around five million, NOT half a Billion. Secondly they would have provided better safety outcomes, thirdly they would have unshackled general aviation in Australia permitting growth, financial security and jobs instead of the death by a thousand cuts the GA industry is currently experiencing.
The added bonus? The taxpayer would have saved the cost (Still unknown) of CASA producing a plain English explanation of exactly what the current gobbledegook regulations actually mean.

Australia the "Lucky Country"? certainly the dumb'est.