[Gobbledock]

AN AERODROME CONUNDRUM

The challenge in four parts are as follows;

1. Council are useless and should never manage an aerodrome. Local Government is the most dysfunctional and inept beast one could never wish for, and they couldn’t run a school raffle from a tin shed. No idea. They are also risk averse and paranoid about litigation.
2. Small business/GA etc expect to pay absolutely nothing by way of fees and charges yet expect a Rolls Royce aerodrome laid out before them. Unrealistic expectations and demands.
3. CAsA is killing aviation, including aerodromes. Unworkable and expensive regulations and requirements just to keep a pissy little strip open for business. The maintenance costs including compliance requirements, annual technical inspections (depending on aerodrome category), upkeep, capital and operational budgets etc have made aerodrome upkeep a nightmare.
4. Incompetent, inept and out of touch federal government. Minimal money provided to airports to maintain and ensure compliance with all their unworkable rules which are time consuming and expensive. Useless pollywafflers not funding infrastructure.

There are no short term solutions, or really any long term ones on the radar as yet. Just tail chasing day after day and year after year. But the Bruny Island saga is one of many unfolding and the problem is getting worse by the month. No aerodromes = no GA. A desperate situation we have been warning about for years.

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