Onwards to the Past
eneral aviation has been like a 4WD stuck in mud for many years despite the collective effort by advocates to extract it from the mire. In the last 12 months, it seemed that we were gaining traction and GA was slowly moving towards solid ground. Now with a change of government, are we about to be shoved back into the morass again? The power to recover GA has always been there, but political motivation has been lacking for most of the time. With the release of the Coalition’s Aviation Recovery Framework, CASA’s GA workplan, the General Aviation Advisory Network (GAAN) strategy paper and the interim report from the senate inquiry into the GA industry, we had a momentum that we’d never experienced before. The Federal Election in May removed the Coalition government,…