Britain Weighs Ban Against Basing Non-UK Aircraft

[Genghis the Engineer]

I have a CD here with a presentation by Sir Roy McNulty (chairman of UK CAA) to the Royal Aeronautical Society a few months ago. Bear in mind that as Chairman of a government agency, he is by definition somebody who you'd expect to play things "softly and politely".

Below is the contents of two slides (no.s 12 and 13 out of 25, cut and pasted without any change by me.

(If you want to read the whole thing, it's a ½Mb pdf, my email is [email protected])

(By the way, there's a very similar thread running in private flying, is it worth perhaps merging the two, although into which forum I'm unsure? Heliport?)

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Reflections on EASA to date
• EASA has suffered from a number of initial
handicaps e.g.
– a very ambitious initial timetable
– delay in appointment of Executive Director
– Commission staffing rules and EP budgetary controls
– delay in deciding EASA location, and the location
selected
• We respect what has been achieved by the
EASA team, against the background above, and
EASA looks likely to deliver some improvements
in regulation.


Reflections on EASA to date (cont.,)
• We (CAA)
– assess EASA in terms of its effectiveness in
meeting the UK’s safety policy objectives;
- believe that the standards of regulation and
management against which we assess EASA
should be the same standards as already exist in
the CAA and other major safety regulators;

• On that basis, we are disappointed with the way in
which EASA has developed to date e.g.,
- manpower planning/recruitment;
- finance & charges; contracts with NAA’s
- approach to safety regulation;
- approach to standardisation;
- attitudes towards co-operation;
- lack of proper planning, management and governance