[B]"Bristol Scout"[B]-You miss my point entirely. It's because, unlike the FAA, they're unaccountable to the public & unresponsive to their customers that the CAA should be reformed. Being overseen by the Dept.of Transport doesn't fill me with too much enthusiasm if our F/W brethren's comments on the Security thread are anything to go by!
The UK CAA are, I believe the only EU regulator without an element of public funding. Public funding would bring in control, oversight, value for money, external auditing of their activities, best value practices etc. Come to think of it, there's another 'hot air chamber' not far down the road at Westminster that could benefit from a dose of the same medicine!
I have no problem with the "front of house" public office occupants, it's the back room bureaucrats hiding behind the regulations who need shaking up.
with fraternal greetings,
ambi
