Pat
Well said.
There is too much legislation passing through the EC which, on the face of the draft proposal, no-one could argue about.
However, when the detailed proposals hit, then we in PFA-type aircraft get clobbered big time.
It seems beyond the working parties involved to consider that anyone would want to fly recreationally, as so our requirements are almost never considered - as happened with EASA last year.
Like you say, once the great and good - mostly ignorant of the effect of the EC legislation- have passed the bills, then we are stuffed, as there is no effective legislative means of changing it.
The problem is, as with the recent EASA consultation, we have to dig into the dark corners of the draft outline proposals to see if there is anything that could possibly affect us. And given the pathetic wording of such documents, that is next to impossible.
I would like to take the view that the legislators mean well, but experience proves otherwise, and we have to fight every bit of legislation. The BGA are well used to this, but now GA are going to have to organise and protest.