[Sandy Reith]

The Interim Report, more unintelligent drivel from a Committee that’s devoid of credibility and should be ashamed of wasting our time and money.

“Consider this” “review” “consult” “culture”

Same tired nonsense but two particular items stand out.

Firstly the recommendation for yet another independent statutory body as an aviation complaints commission. Terrific, spend a few more $millions a year into Government Industries, the revolving door salary enhancing merry-go-round which was once the Public Service. Yet another CASA like entity created to dash any remote hopes that our elected representatives will step up to their responsibilities and insist on fair treatment. Who would head up this new creature? Someone with good knowledge of the inner workings of CASA, a legal mind that grasps all the subtle details. Especially a person that believes that the General Aviation community need the discipline of a strong Government hand.

Second Idiotic: a whimpering plea for CASA medical to go easy on “remote and regional” pilots when faced with AVMAD’s extreme requirements for additional testing and reports and decisions which are against specialist advice.

Apparently Senators are not aware that the law is supposed to treat all equally.

Equality before the law is an essential and blindingly obvious element of the rule of law. They can’t be individually so ignorant so the Committee’s carelessness goes hand in hand with its shameless and cowardly decision not to put down a single hard and fast recommendation, except perhaps for the new Aviation Complaints Authority.

But jest for fun let’s take the call for regional and remote pilots to receive special treatment a little further. We will need to draw maps with two zones, the rational elective area leniency zone (REAL), and the strict hard interpretation territories of CASA’s AVMED.

I will apply to be CEO of the new statutory authority to determine who lives in which zone, the Regional Ordnance Regulator of Territories (RORT).