[Kharon]

You know guys and girls its interesting.
The president of the AOPA is calling for compensation for the ADSB fraud perpetrated on the GA industry.
The thought occurred to me, what about the "regulatory Reform" fraud???

I mean the ADSB fraud only cost the industry $170 million, so I'm told.

The Regulatory Reform Fraud has cost the industry more than a quarter Billion $$ and counting.
The Part 61 fraud alone is costing my company over $250 grand a year.

Should the GA industry be calling for compensation for these frauds??

Misrepresentation?

Dunno Thorny – Fraud is a serious charge, bullshit is not; nor is Bullocks, or Bollocks.

To a charge of Fraud, the reply would be a resounding not guilty; but to a continuous call of Bollocks – what can they say.

Reg reform is a Bollocks; a party for word weasels, jumped up ‘instructors’ and anyone else pushing a barrow; fraud?– no way; but ask any aviation savvy Barrister (bar Hardly Normal) and you will get a chuckle, a wry smile and a ‘good luck with that’ – pro bono.   The ‘laws’ being presented as ‘worlds best’ and the answer to a maidens prayer are unworkable, operationally devoid of understanding, written outside of any sensible brief and, to make it a total duck up, writ against the criminal code and ‘strict liability’.  All of this makes it easy for the CASA LSD to ‘win’; any case, anywhere, anytime.  Not only do they have a bottomless pit of ‘our’ money to use against a complaint, they will have laws which make it next to impossible to frame any form of defence.  For CASA, the new rules are not a bollocks, but manna from heaven.

The closest to ‘fraud’ you’ll get is a manager with SFA aeronautical experience sitting in judgement, supporting the lobotomised mutants who make a claim and make it stick, despite, ‘law’, logic and reason.  This is the crew which are, some say desperately, trying to convince industry to ‘assist’ them in doing the job they’re paid to do.  Bollocks.

Another one which may go close to a ‘fraud’ is putting up a DAS who was not only raped by the system, but lay back and enjoyed it; the correct legal term is “graped” as there was a bunch of them.

The next potential item would be the cost to operators for doing business with this outfit, extortion would be a more likely charge than fraud.  The question is, who benefits?  A cold blooded man could say well, the government takes a percentile profit, therefore the more money raked in, the better off the ‘investors’ are.  The investors are the travelling public, who, like lambs to the slaughter keep turning up to travel.  Hard to call that one, except any increase in ‘operating’ costs must be absorbed or, passed along.  No brainer really.

Nope, the ‘F” word is a little to much to go for as is extortion by a government supported monopoly; but BOLLOCKS is a non taxable, non criminal charge, which accurately defines most of what our three ‘aviation services’ are.  Sheltered workshops, with a monopoly  licence to print money, as much as they want, when they want it.  

Is it all a crock of pony pooh?, course it is; but who will change it?  Not those who benefit most – your friendly government.  The tail wags the toothless, placid dog, it has ever been thus, since the cave.

TB, what say we buy a small cottage on the South Island, set up as couple of harmless, muttering eccentrics and spend our days waiting for a car to come by and throw rocks at it in the mornings, go fishing all arvo and get pissed, every night just after sundown then toddle off to the land of nod and get up the next day and do her all again.   Got my vote; hell I’ll even throw in a dartboard as an inducement.

Aye well – peace in our time? Unlikely…..