You might like to put that to the Smith and Guthrie families where, despite ill informed comment on the accident cause and sequence in this and other forums, their husbands’ and fathers’ deaths in a Sting 2000 were directly attributable to neglect of paperwork.
Adherence to RAAus paperwork procedures would have detected false documentation, prevented faulty registration and ownership transfer, identified maintenance failures, anticipated the engine failure, provided correct operating parameters critical to safe flight and landing, and, perhaps most importantly, notified the true MTOW prior to the flight so the passenger would simply not have been in the aircraft.
In short, if correct regulatory paperwork had been followed, the flight would never have happened and two good men would still be with us so, if the current registration debacle means that one other innocent life is saved, it has been well worthwhile.
