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Old 19th Feb 2019, 17:50
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Strumble Head
 
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So in summary:
1. In due course, the UK AAIB will produce their report summarising their considered view on what is likely to have happened. Along with many reading and contributing to this forum, I now have my own view - based on the original circumstances and the many, many valid inputs provided in this forum.
2. The US FAA have little practical interest, as they are not responsible for enforcement outside the US, the pilot involved is no longer with us and so has no US licence to lose, and the practical owners (whoever and wherever they may turn out to be) do not operate in the US.
3. The UK CAA will continue to give this murky area the good ignoring which appears to have gone on for years. A moderate increase in carefully judged enforcement action would probably do something at little cost to level the playing fields between those who play by the rules - and incur the costs thereof - and those who cheat the system and thumb their noses at the formal checks and balances. That those checks and balances are based on painful experience seems never to register with those cowboys. There doesn't seem to be any shortage of relevant regulation - just an appalling lack of responsibility in monitoring and enforcing.
4. The extent to which the responsibilities of those behind this whole sorry saga are exposed will be based on the various financial and 'political' interests of the parties. With some £15M in play and some deep pockets to keep the lawyers busy, this one could run and run.

Cynical? Moi?
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