Air safety risk
I have filed a CHIRP about this removal of the "A conditions" certificates of fittness for flight, in by view the lack of the CoFF is putting pressure on the strictly VFR sector.
There are sometimes blocks of two weeks in the winter when VFR flight of the older and less well equiped aircraft would be marganal if not imposable.
I think that the £80 charge and the administrve delay put undue pressure on pilots and owners to move aircraft in weather conditions that They would not normaly fly in.
I have writen to my MEP but all I get back from all the authoritys is that the A conditons did not meet international standards and we are now (in effect) ruled from Brussels and no one can change that.
Unfortunatly EASA cant or wont see that the lack of a usable A conditions system is a flight safety risk and an errosion of the safety standards that the CAA has upheld very well over the years, it is my opinion that EASA don't understand aviation other that in the airlines and this is not an issue for the IFR sector.
The bottom line is that one or two of us have to die trying to move aircraft under this artificial time pressue before what is called the European air SAFETY agency will take note.