Parliament to reject it now, although the Parliament doesn’t have a lot of say in these matters. It’s a last-ditch attempt to stave it off.”
I think the European Parliament do have a lot more say in these matters than was the case.
For that reason AOPA took on a full time lobbyist.
The damage this will do to smaller airfields not just to their own income but to the fact that owner businessmen will not be able to do business as before in smaller out of the way places.
What for? There is no demonstrated safety benefits! Take aircraft over that weight ie small business jets which do operate into smaller airfields! Do they have a bad safety record? No! Professionally flown corporate jets have an accident rate of .3 per 100,000 hrs AOC ops on the other hand have an attrocious accident rate of 3 per 100,000 hrs ten times worse than us so leave us alone please with your stupid regulations which suit no one but the regulators!
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