On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:24:15 -0500, "Gary Drescher"
wrote:

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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Mainly this part...


Remember, if you operate an aircraft in Australian Territory after 31
December 2005 and you need to hold a license issued by CASA, you must have
a current AVID or ASIC.

Right, so pilots need to have an aviation photo ID; or, for regular access
to secure areas at "public transport" airports, they need a security ID that
requires a background check.

Similar requirements exist now for all pilots at several GA airports here in
Massachusetts. I think the security requirment is an unwarranted intrusion;
but I don't see how it would put a tour operator out of business, or even
impose a significant impediment.

Now suppose you run a business that caters to foreign pilots and that
is the vast portion of your business. Now what if each of those
pilots had to have a US issued license to fly those planes?

That means, unlike one of us going to a different airport and having
to get checked out before flying the FBO's airplanes, we'd have to
sign up and go through all the training required to earn a US license.
before then could rent us a plane.

Incidentally the US already has a "Universal Licensing System" called
a driver's license with a photo ID.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

--Gary


"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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That tour operator was forced out of business by the security laws put
in
place by the Australian government.

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:4IUxf.547$FS3.544@trndny04...
Could what happen here? A tour operator goes out of business?

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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What securty laws?

"Chris" wrote in message
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This stuff, makes a two week safari too difficult

http://www.casa.gov.au/fcl/licence/index.htm

What's the difficulty for a two-week safari?

--Gary