It occurs to me K that many, many years ago when a young Sprog
with a dream to become a pilot set about fulfilling that dream, they were
completely free of the cost burden imposed in the modern world
by regulatory "Compliance".
Back then, with the shadow of the second world war so fresh in everyone's mind
and the critical shortage of pilots and aviation infrastructure that weighed so heavily
on the countriy's war effort, the imperative was to train as many pilots as possible
as quickly as possible. Anyone with any sort of "Aviation" experience was drafted into
the process and created a training framework that achieved the necessary competence as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
After the war had ended the framework they created became the template for training
civilian pilots, who would go on to serve a rapidly growing civilian industry recognized
as an essential service, to ameliorate the tyranny of distance, promote development and
connect far flung communities. Virtually every country town with an airstrip had an air-service.
Regulatory services were largely provided free, as a public service, they still are today in the USA.In Australia, somewhere, somehow, aviation came to be viewed as un-essential and a potential cash cow both for the government and a plethora of parasitic entities to feed off.
Australia with its isolation from the "real" world and perhaps a developing inferiority complex arrogantly decided that the rest of the world was wrong and set about re-inventing the wheel. The trouble with that was, forget about essential service, forget about benefit to communities, forget about what a healthy growingindustry could contribute to the economy, everything had a cost and that cost had to be met.
In the USA the benefits outweighed the cost. I'm sure the costs associated with running the FAA are more than covered by the benefits aviation returns to the country. Their aviation industry thrives ours is dying.
As Australia has gone about reinventing the wheel, cost has been heaped on cost, new and inventive parasites have sprung up to add their impositions driving the downward spiral of an industry. Our inept regulator ignores the warnings and advice of industry, whilst arrogantly pursuing their self serving agenda to the detriment of the whole country.
Someone once said "No taxation without representation" perhaps if that was modified to "No regulation without representation" Australian aviation would be in a much better position.
with a dream to become a pilot set about fulfilling that dream, they were
completely free of the cost burden imposed in the modern world
by regulatory "Compliance".
Back then, with the shadow of the second world war so fresh in everyone's mind
and the critical shortage of pilots and aviation infrastructure that weighed so heavily
on the countriy's war effort, the imperative was to train as many pilots as possible
as quickly as possible. Anyone with any sort of "Aviation" experience was drafted into
the process and created a training framework that achieved the necessary competence as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
After the war had ended the framework they created became the template for training
civilian pilots, who would go on to serve a rapidly growing civilian industry recognized
as an essential service, to ameliorate the tyranny of distance, promote development and
connect far flung communities. Virtually every country town with an airstrip had an air-service.
Regulatory services were largely provided free, as a public service, they still are today in the USA.In Australia, somewhere, somehow, aviation came to be viewed as un-essential and a potential cash cow both for the government and a plethora of parasitic entities to feed off.
Australia with its isolation from the "real" world and perhaps a developing inferiority complex arrogantly decided that the rest of the world was wrong and set about re-inventing the wheel. The trouble with that was, forget about essential service, forget about benefit to communities, forget about what a healthy growingindustry could contribute to the economy, everything had a cost and that cost had to be met.
In the USA the benefits outweighed the cost. I'm sure the costs associated with running the FAA are more than covered by the benefits aviation returns to the country. Their aviation industry thrives ours is dying.
As Australia has gone about reinventing the wheel, cost has been heaped on cost, new and inventive parasites have sprung up to add their impositions driving the downward spiral of an industry. Our inept regulator ignores the warnings and advice of industry, whilst arrogantly pursuing their self serving agenda to the detriment of the whole country.
Someone once said "No taxation without representation" perhaps if that was modified to "No regulation without representation" Australian aviation would be in a much better position.