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Your a) and b) represent a substantial climbdown from your previous pronouncements on the subject, and I don't suppose many owners of foreign reg planes would mind - unless the CAA wants £600 every 3 years for "processing" the registration, which of course they will. I wonder what they would do to earn the fee?
You are trying hard to make a case for some sort of higher maintenance standard, but the N-reg regime is little different from the CAA Private CofA regime, and you can do unlimited flying in just about any GA plane under the latter. So what does that leave us? It leaves us with revenue generation.
Cars aren't relevant to this. Only a miniscule % of car accidents are caused by mech failure. The strict MOT is there mainly to protect the public from cowboy car dealers. The strict registration is there to ensure that if you are photographed speeding or whatever, they know where to send the summons to. With planes, Mode S will take care of that.
As for the rest, it may be a bait but I don't see the relevance to GA.
Last edited by IO540; 3rd April 2004 at 16:02.