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AOPA/AMROBA submission No. ?? 

Not yet on the RRAT inquiry webpage but the following was published yesterday via FB...

Ref: https://auntypru.com/wp-content/uploads/...ations.pdf

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) of Australia, an affiliate of AOPA International,
invites interested parties to support a fresh approach towards flying training. Flying training is the
bedrock activity of General Aviation (GA) that can grow jobs and businesses.

Flying training stimulates job growth in a number of associated fields, such as aviation engineering,
aircraft maintenance, manufacturing and education.

Australia’s GA industry needs a fresh approach in order to provide the Nation with the aviation skills
and expertise to carry us forward in a post COVID era, AOPA Australia looks to one specific legislative
change as the initial requirement in order to achieve a new dynamic for Australia’s General Aviation
industry.

This change is to align the Commonwealth’s commitment to the Competition Principles Agreement
of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). This will allow independent flight instructors to
conduct flying training in harmony with the International Civil Aviation Organisation, (ICAO)
standards, via it’s Annexes stated to which we are signatory.

This submission is based on the COAG’s Competition Principles Agreement that have not been
applied to aviation regulatory development since 2003. In fact, we assert that anti-competitive
aviation regulations have been created since 2003 that have restricted safe competitive growth of
small businesses by removing safe competitive regulations consistent to the Chicago Convention
Annexes as implemented by the USA’s Federal Aviation Regulations. NZ has adopted the FARs and
NZ small aviation and manufacturing are much healthier than Australia’s small civil aviation sectors.

AOPA Australia recommends

• Civil Aviation Safety Regulations should be reviewed and directed to comply with the
Governments’ Competition Principles Agreement.
• The Ministers direction to CASA must set a timetable to review and reform regulations to
enable civil aviation businesses plan a long-term future.
• The Civil Aviation Act should be amended to include the Competition Principles Agreement
section 5 so the same mistake does not happen in the future.

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Next via AMROBA: https://auntypru.com/wp-content/uploads/...n-8-21.pdf

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