Onderstaande informatie komt van de website van IAOPA (iaopa.eu). UK CAA to let GA off the leash? In contrast to other National Aviation Authorities in Europe, the UK CAA has expressed its intention to remove where possible all unnecessary obstacles to general aviation and has appointed a General Aviation Manager to plan the future regulation of the sector. The CAA has made an unprecedented apology for its slow performance on licensing during the EASA changeover and has promised “no more gold plating” of EASA rules for general aviation in the UK. The Authority’s latest statements have been welcomed by AOPA as evidence that a new culture of support for GA has taken root in Britain, and a new partnership between regulator and GA industry is being created. The CAA is reflecting industry concerns about EASA’s new Aviation Training Organisation requirements, which impose new bureaucracy and cost on flying schools. The Authority believes the current small-scale training organisations, known as Registered Facilities, already achieve acceptable safety standards and need no additional regulation, and that their oversight could be delegated to an industry representative group. “We will also seek to impose the minimum amount of regulations allowable,” the CAA says. “We have committed to eliminate any ‘gold-plating’ of EU regulations, and will not impose any higher standards or extra requirements than those required by the EU.” The CAA has appointed Mike Barnard, a GA pilot, engineer, aircraft builder and owner, to run its General Aviation programme. In an interview with the AOPA UK magazine General Aviation Mr Barnard said he believes there is an appetite for change across the world in the way GA is regulated. “There is a realisation that the sort of top-down regulation we have traditionally had does not work well for GA, and a new approach is needed,” he says. “Both in the UK and Europe it is accepted that the current regulatory environment is bureaucratically burdensome, and we are working with our European colleagues to deliver a safety strategy for general aviation, proportionate to the needs and viability of our sector. In other words, if the GA industry is to survive, it has to be allowed to breathe more freely.” Regulation must he risk-based, he says – and the CAA is not there to save you from yourself. If you understand and accept the risks, you are entitled to take them. “Aviation regulators recognise their principal duty of care to the genuine uninvolved third-party. (However) the pilot of a single seat de-regulated aircraft is fully aware of his own risks and is personally responsible for mitigating them; where the risk to society is small and the participants are fully aware of any risks involved, the level of intervention need not be onerous. We are looking carefully at the concept of ‘informed consent’ to help us develop more appropriate approaches to some operational aspects involved in GA; watch this space” AOPA UK CEO Martin Robinson says: “The UK CAA has always been a European leader and we hope other authorities will follow its lead on this matter, as they have on so many other issues.”
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:02:17 +0000
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