[Sandy Reith]

Jeff is to be congratulated for making a start, but don't lose sight of the fact that the tide is still running hard against GA. Take from another thread here on AP the CFI who has given up because he can't see over the mountain of paperwork. How many others like him these last twenty years, I'd say hundreds. Part 61 is still a disaster. The paperwork got to me when I was in the business. The ever changing rules to be incorporated into the ever changing ops manual, 12 pages when I started my joy flight and SE charter business. Now you wouldn't take an ops manual in your plane for fear of overloading. And what's in it? Pretty much a rewrite of the rules. If the Board wants GA to survive it must act quickly. Flying training is the bedrock of Australian aviation. We must insist on take up of the US system where instructors don't have to achieve the super expensive and time consuming AOC. This one reform would allow instructors to teach freely wherever and whenever there is opportunity. For any endeavour to succeed there must be incentives, will the CASA Board go for real reforms or just spend more millions on putting out spot fires?