[Kharon]

CASR Part 61 : start 1999 – ended 2015.  That's what – 16 years at 100 pages per annum, to produce an ineffective, incomprehensible bastard version of a rule set which began life as a jolly good idea,  Bravo.   Using the same formula a practical, sensible version, similar to the NZ rule set, with a modest less than 100 pages total should have taken, even at CASA speed, about a year to produce.  So WTF has happened during the lost years and what do 'we' have to see for the investment? 

Three things which, IMO demand serious answers : (i) the dollar cost of those 15 additional years; (ii) the almost unworkable, legally dangerous nature of the presented 'regulation'; (iii) that Australian industry is prepared to invest further time, effort and money in rectifying this monstrosity.   

The why, who, when and how of this aberration have me wondering if perhaps it's me that the village which lost it's idiot is looking for.  Because one of us is barking.  To start with a relatively straightforward, sane idea for simplifying and modernising a rule set and to finish up with the anathema* as presented, then to meekly accept it, and then happily volunteering to assist in rectifying the wretched thing; all point to insanity.

Woof woof.  



* ("something dedicated to evil and thus accursed").