But EASA has failed, their approach to the likes of Cessna SIDS by allowing each individual authority to decide upon implementation and the farce of writing your own maintainence schedules has at a stroke taken the commonality and harmonisation across the EU off the table.
EASA was brought about due to the lack of a common standard as the likes of Airbus would find themselves building several versions of aircraft for each countries regulatory bodies standards, a sort of one size fits all, but by the very fact that EASA are now allowing regulators to decide if and when they implement individual rulings means that standardisation has gone and EASA is no longer fit for purpose.
The best word to describe EASA these days is bloatware, regulating for the sake of regulating, with the new licence types and the loss of the common basic maintainence programmes such as LAMPS, that ensured all aircraft received a minimum, safe, none cost driven maintenance programme, ensuring a minimum standard across the UK fleets, and a simple weight related engineering licence that did not require you searching the web to find out if your licence covered you this week on the types you had in your groups and what was actually printed on your licence were and are farcical. If it wasn't bust don't fix it.
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Last edited by NutLoose; 31st Jan 2018 at 10:57.