The time for talking to the CAA is over they have ignored the cabinet office rules on Regularitory impact assessment and they have not actioned a Small buisness impact test on the latest price hike.
These are goverment requirments for industry regulation if the CAA is unwilling or unable to abide by the goverments rules for regulation then it is time to bring these people to book.
The cabinet office knows that the rules have been breached but states that they have no powers to enforce a retrospective inpact assessment, this just sends the message that if the CAA ignores the rules of good regulation the they can do what ever they like.
Well it's time to make them re-think the actions that they have taken and if they won't play by the rules then the only course of action open to me as an individual is to talk to my MP.
It's high time the rest of the industry got as belligerent as myself and perhaps then the management at the CAA would take some notice, in the long term it is in the interests of the employees of the CAA to have a thriving GA industry but as to the managment they are only interested in the short term because by the time the distruction of the UK GA industry comes home to roost they will be on the board of some multi national company racking up a third pension.
A year ago I could write a C of FF under "A" conditions Now they quote a month to produce this document charge £80 for it and of course I still have to take full technical responsability. . . . . . is this good regulation or jobs for the boys?
As I said at the start of this post the time for talking to the CAA is over the only thing that these will peope understand is questions being asked in the house of commons and the chance of drawing the dole.
Last edited by A and C; 3rd February 2006 at 21:53.