[thorn bird]

As so many people have said before, the whole "Regulatory reform" program is simply a giant farcical make work exercise by a completely incompetent out of control government agency.

The same exercise was conducted in Europe which decimated the industry there, yet we chose to follow their example allegedly aligning our rules with their rules, which we didn't, just cherry picked bits and pieces that suited our agenda.

Hundreds of millions of dollars, thirty years in the making, to what end? what was the end game?

How does CASA measure its success? Is it measured against the complete collapse of general aviation? or the highest airfares in the world (We used to have that, remember the two airlines policy).

They say its all about safety, measured against what? Are we really safer than other developed countries? Statistics would suggest we are not, so what was the point?

If the point was to destroy general aviation they could simply banned private flying, saved everyone a fortune and angst instead of death by a thousand cuts. Think of the fortune the treasury could have made selling off airports at their market value, instead of defrauding the people of Australia by giving them away to development sharks to allegedly run as airports then allowing them to bite chunk after chunk off to build industrial warehouses compromising their utility and their very safety operationally.

When measured over the past thirty years has the draconian regulation rewrite done anything to achieve that nirvana, they promised? Do we have the safest in the world?

The industry itself must carry a lot of the blame for its current demise, they should have seen it coming and revolted long ago, unfortunately its too late now, fait accompli. Its all so sad and in a way tragic that one day our grandchildren will look back and say "what were they thinking"?