Aircraft Registration Back-Flip - CASA Gets it Wrong - AGAIN
The new aircraft registration procedures¹ have been repealed after some adept work by Boyd Munro from www.airsafety.com.au and the now famous fax brigade effort
The Democrats and Labor combined in the Senate on the afternoon of 8th November 2000 and disallowed CASR Part 47 to be passed as legislation
One of Senators mentioned that he had received more than 1,000 faxes opposing the new regulations and not a single one in favour!
Boyd's efforts to bring the suspect aircraft
registration procedures legislation to the attention of the private aircraft owners here in OZ must be applauded by all interested pilots
Well done Boyd !
The Brisbane Flying Group has obtained another low-time Grumman Tiger from WA to replace one of their machines that was damaged beyond economical
repair¹ at Fraser Island a few months back
As mentioned in Week Two this month - the DC4 has been working like a drover's dog² with freight contracts including one trip last week to Kiwi Land !
²Note for non-OZ viewers - Aussie colloquialism for working hard !
News from a few of the maintenance workshops - as the declining OZ dollar attracts overseas buyers - is that a number of good quality aircraft have been sold and are in the process of returning to the USA
The Sydney Morning Herald/Sun-Herald reports that RAAF is running out
of pilots¹
The OZ Air Force has only 11 operational pilots for the 34 F-111 Aardvark fighter
bombers and 42 fighter pilots for the 77 F/A-18 Hornets !
