Needing a degree in IT just to figure out the mechanics of actually placing a comment via the EASA website doesn't exactly help
How did it work back when the CAA was in charge of making the rules? Did they provide a 0-800 number for you to discuss your inputs? Collect mail? Did they visit your club and asked "what d'you think of this?"
One is still waiting for anyone on any of the EASA-bashing threads to point out specific sections in the proposed regulations that they have an issue with. Nobody has yet done that.
I know that a couple of people who post here have sent constructive comments to EASA in the past, such as 'tdbristol' is attempting to do, but the majority seem to be complaining purely out of habit based on simple hearsay (i.e., with zero knowledge of what they're talking about. Bit like the PPL version of a NIMBY)
For the record, I am far from a Europhile. With close friends in the EU bureaucracy I can often see how all this works (or rather, doesn't), and I am happy to place criticism wherever it's due.
However, the vast majority of comments here strike me as pure insularism. I can't see how that is going to promote any useful cause you might be trying to defend--although again, I doubt the majority here are trying to defend anything at all.
As an exception, I believe the (multinational?) PPL-IR group mentioned a few posts back might have been doing some useful work as regards private IFR. Perhaps any members would care to enlighten us as to what's going on in that camp? As a new, separate thread would be best. IO? Care to post a few lines on that?