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New UK Regulations
I hear as from the 1st October all gliders in the UK will have to be
registered with the CAA and placed on the normal UK aircraft register carrying the allocated G- marks. At present the BGA has always overseen this. What difference will these changes have, besides of course costing us all more money! BBK |
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I have it on the best authority that we have an exemption for 'a couple of
years' possibly 4. Apparently A - the CAA couldn't handle 2500 more aircraft and B - half the fleet would probably be grounded for a considerable time due to documentation 'anomalies'. Ian / wrote in message ... I hear as from the 1st October all gliders in the UK will have to be registered with the CAA and placed on the normal UK aircraft register carrying the allocated G- marks. At present the BGA has always overseen this. What difference will these changes have, besides of course costing us all more money! BBK |
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:46:38 GMT, Robert Danewid
wrote: / wrote: I hear as from the 1st October all gliders in the UK will have to be registered with the CAA and placed on the normal UK aircraft register carrying the allocated G- marks. At present the BGA has always overseen this. What difference will these changes have, besides of course costing us all more money! BBK It isn't the fact that the gliders are on the normal civil register that is the problem. Our friends in the USA don't seem to have a problem with this. Gliders in Australia are on the civil register as Australian aircraft too although the GFA maintains the glider register (for no good purpose actually). The real problem is the lunatic Euro rules and regs designed to feed a vast bureaucracy. Western Europe was a more sensible place when there were several million armed Russians glaring across the fence. Mike Borgelt |
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In article , Robert Danewid
writes: European Aviation Safety Agency which became operative today. Your BGA /David Roberts) has put in a tremendous lot of work to try to "save" gliding from all the nonsense that are coming out of Brussels. Robert Danewid President Swedish Soaring Federation Any government agency that has the word "SAFETY" in its title will concern its self more with their idea of safety rather than spending any time on making the sport more accesable to the masses through less regulation, lower fees and making sure the activity is treated fairly buy the government. All of us in the U.S.A. need to pay attention to what is happening in Europe. There are many polititions here that idolize the "European Model" and would like to see it here. That will be a sorry day indeed. Robert Mudd |
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See
http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/tec...tters/EASA.htm Good work - well done to those involved. At 11:54 29 September 2003, Robertmudd1u wrote: In article , Robert Danewid writes: European Aviation Safety Agency which became operative today. Your BGA /David Roberts) has put in a tremendous lot of work to try to 'save' gliding from all the nonsense that are coming out of Brussels. Robert Danewid President Swedish Soaring Federation Any government agency that has the word 'SAFETY' in its title will concern its self more with their idea of safety rather than spending any time on making the sport more accesable to the masses through less regulation, lower fees and making sure the activity is treated fairly buy the government. All of us in the U.S.A. need to pay attention to what is happening in Europe. There are many polititions here that idolize the 'European Model' and would like to see it here. That will be a sorry day indeed. Robert Mudd |
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As Robert Danewid (Swedish Soaring Federation) says,we have been doing
a lot of work in representing the interests of both UK and European glider pilots, over the last 15 months. Not only tracking the developments in the EU with the creation of EASA, but more even more importantly lobbying hard to get some sense into the situation. The game has really only just begun with the passing into law of Part 21 on airworthiness. On this we have achieved some temporary concessions in the UK (see BGA website - www.gliding.co.uk). However, the devil is in the detail - and there is a lot of it (whole forests). Whilst registration of UK gliders with the UK CAA might not seem too draconian a point - albeit with probably some cost - nevertheless it is where it leads us to that is of concern. Some aspects of EASA will be beneficial to European glider owners and pilots - the 'free' movement of gliders across the EU and mutual acceptance by each member state of another state's gliders. But what concerns me most is that the fundamental approach to safety emanating from Brussels, as applied to our sector of aviation, is based on the concept that creating lotsof rules = creating safety. As we all know, in at least the airworthiness area, relative to the activities of pilots, poor airworthiness is not the major or even minor cause of most accidents. Human factors, training, slef discipline, airmanship etc are the major cause and that requires a different approach to that of writing lots of rules to follow. But bureacracy can't handle the soft issues as well as the legislative approach. As regards Part M implementing rules for the continued airworthiness of gliders (i.e. Maintenance)our representations at the EU level, through Europe Air Sports which represents all air sport pilots and owners in Europe (some 700,000 people including modellers), we have been instrumental in getting a two year delay on these rules coming into force. Not only that, but the European Commission has accepted a wide representation from many sectors of aviation and many Member States, led in part by the air sports community, that Part M needs major review and further consultation before becoming EU law. In particular we have pressed for formal Regulatory Impact Assessments, which in the UK are obligatory for any new such legislation, and such RIAs have to prove the case with costs / benefit equations to demonstrate a likley increase in safety. There is a vast amount of work facing European gliding associations over the next few years, and Airworhiness / Continued Airworthiness is just the start of this imposed legislation. Pilot Licensing and Operations are the other two areas of rule making due to follow later this year or early next year as drafts for consultation. So, watch this space, and support the efforts of volunteer reepresentatives who have been / are dealing with the less glamorous end of the sport - defending against unnecessary regulation - which enables the fun end of the sport to continue. David Roberts BGA Chairman Mark Stevens wrote in message ... Indeed, Congratulations..Well done.. At 15:48 29 September 2003, Gavin Goudie wrote: See http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/tec...tters/EASA.htm Good work - well done to those involved. At 11:54 29 September 2003, Robertmudd1u wrote: In article , Robert Danewid writes: European Aviation Safety Agency which became operative today. Your BGA /David Roberts) has put in a tremendous lot of work to try to 'save' gliding from all the nonsense that are coming out of Brussels. Robert Danewid President Swedish Soaring Federation Any government agency that has the word 'SAFETY' in its title will concern its self more with their idea of safety rather than spending any time on making the sport more accesable to the masses through less regulation, lower fees and making sure the activity is treated fairly buy the government. All of us in the U.S.A. need to pay attention to what is happening in Europe. There are many polititions here that idolize the 'European Model' and would like to see it here. That will be a sorry day indeed. Robert Mudd |
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