Peter wrote:
NoSpam wrote:

If you haven't already done so you may enjoy reading this recent report
on the CAA by the Transport Select Committee (note comments on EASA):
http://www.publications.parliament.u...an/809/809.pdf

That is a 360 page document; presumably you are thinking of this
snippet

Relationship with the Department for Transport

21. Several witnesses told us there was a need for a greater degree of integration and coordination
between the CAA and the Department for Transport. The Airport Operators
Association told us that, in conducting a recent consultation on bringing foreign-registered
aircraft into the UK, the Department had failed to discuss the likely costs of the associated
regulatory requirements with the CAA, and had therefore estimated the cost to be £0.25
million when the real cost was more likely to be “in the order of tens of millions of
pounds.”32 It argued that it was important both that CAA specialists were given the
opportunity to contribute to Government thinking, and that Department officials had a
thorough understanding of the CAA’s regulatory approach and practice. It called for
greater efforts towards joint working and the earlier involvement of the CAA in policymaking.

Since the CAA makes a big thing of being a consultant to the UK Govt
on all aviation matters, what happened here? I don't think the CAA can
wash its hands of this one and just blame the DfT. They *brief* the
DfT.


It was pages 55-59 (and the conclusions) that caught my eye, but
somewhere they're fairly scathing about EASA and suggest that no further
handover of responsibility should occur until the EASA problems are
resolved (can't recall exact words or location but they leapt out when I
scanned through it.)

Dave