AviationGeeks.com - Australian aviation groups launch GA rescue plan

Australian aviation associations have grouped together to propose a 10-point General Aviation Rescue Package based on US practices they hope will arrest the sector's decline.

Warning that further government inaction will "continue to kill off GA", the Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia (AAAA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association, the Regional Aviation Association of Australia and the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia are calling on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to abandon its current European-based approach to regulatory reform and instead adopt a model based on the USA of "simple regulations for simple operations".

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