Fitter2
EASA? The issue I have is I dont understand why you dont do something about it?
To your credit (and I mean the gliding fraternity) you have a very strong association that represents you. You have the ability to lobby effectively.
.. .. and yet I dont see you doing so. Ultimately the fate of EASA is in our hands. We as pilots have the ability, if we really make enough fuss, to force change.
I was so annoyed about the challenge to the IMC rating that without a great deal of effort I started to stir up a veritable hornets nest. I believe that if push had come to shove, we could and would have got our way, because it was the right way. Perhaps we still will. Anyway, at the moment I am leaving that matter to AOPA who say they have our interests at heart and are best able to achieve the "right" result. We shall see.
You have the advantaged of a far more powerful player that the rest of us - if you really wanted to solve a few of these problems the gliding fraternity would make it clear the current regulatory framework is unfit for purpose - infact by the sound of it, positively dangerous, and force change - it is not that hard.
If you do nothing - as another sage so eloquently put it on here before he got banned - you will only have yourself to blame!
Maybe a far too simplistic impression but when everyone campaigned against mode S it seems to me it was a totally negative campaign. No one said now if you agree to the following changes we will come on board. It was more a matter of finding every which way to avoid mode S. It was effective, but it also was pretty hypocrytical.
Again simplistically, if you lot explained to EASA you want to fit transponders and have a workable formula for doing so and will hold them responsible for the next mid air if they fail to put in place a regime that enable you to comply you may well either get your day before the European Court of Human Rights or at least a column or two in the Sun!! The one thing the press loves is anything that would seem to make air travel safer.