What's all the bun fighting about?

I'm only new to GA, currently training for my PPL.

I've wondering about something that I'd like some information on.

When I read Australian aviation magazines, read aviation related forums, and listen to other flyers talk, there seems to be a lot of angst towards CASA. Someone is always bitching about them. Someone is always bitching about airport operators and their moves to do this and that.

I had a read of a recreational flying mag the other day, and there are two separate bodies trying to monopolise the regulation of RAA flying, and they two bodies seem to be in some kind of combat with each other.

What is all this about? Is someone, or anyone in particular trying to control GA for their own ends? If so, who and what are they trying to do?

The above might seem a silly question to others that have been around aviation longer than I have, but there really does seem to be an "us and them" complex.

Can anyone elighten me?

From what I can see, there are a lot of good guys in CASA, but the few total drop kicks make so many enemies that the whole concern gets a bad name.

There definitely seems to be the head office/outstation bun fight. Neither liking each other.

I'd say there are a number of "unhappy with their life" blokes who didn't QUITE make it or didn't make it at all to where they were hoping to get to in their career and have decided to be REALLLLLLLY concientious and pedantic.

CASA / DOTARS

See [ame=http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=237254]ASICs for BIRDSVILLE? - PPRuNe Forums[/ame] for their latest gem.

Gave up reading prune ages ago, too many dickheads with no idea what the real world is, Danny included.