ENHANCED AVIATION SECURITY PACKAGE ANNOUNCED (All "General Aviation Pilots" to Pay $200.00 every two years!)

Sounds to me like an attempt by CASA to purge the system of inactive pilots
who are presently hanging on to their licences in the hope that one day they
will be able to afford to get back into it. If CASA achieves that goal they
will save quite a lot on printing and postage.

But I wonder how this new background information is to be used. I haven't
seen any mention of acceptance criteria or rejection criteria. Will pilots
who don't come up to some unpublished standard be barred from holding a
pilot licence? If not, then what is the information to be used for? And why
should we pay for it? And as somebody else suggested, why shouldn't the same
rules apply to truck drivers and car drivers. And what about all those
pedestrians, who have been a major source of terror attacks in Israel.

The whole exercise might be nothing more than a political stunt to win more
votes from an ignorant public.

Phil Maley