Originally Posted by Mike Cross
AOPA is suggesting people lobby their MP's not their MEP's
Originally Posted by Pat Malone, AOPA UK, writing in Pilot Magazine, February 2010
Please also write to your MEP seeking support in the European Parliament for an administrative change by EASA.
So which is it, Mike?
You say in post #16 that "a device must be created to allow it as a UK only rating", then immediately suggest it could instead be an EASA rating free to be adopted or not by NAAs as they see fit, each of whom who would determine what privileges they attach to it. Surely, it is time for more clarity than that in terms of the objective for this campaign!
Regrettably, nothing I see here or in the responses (albeit few in number) to the publication of this initiative on the LAA Forums gives me any confidence at all that AOPA is mounting a formidable campaign to retain the IMCR as a UK-only rating, or that it is giving any serious regard to the dangers, if it encourages people to seek a European-wide rating, of knocking EASA off-course from the implementation of an FAA-style achievable IR.
First it choses to promote a description of IMCR privileges that is (to anyone with any knowledge whatsoever of the subject) a complete and laughable misrepresentation. Then it mounts a 'lobby your MP' effort that is devoid of any clear and detailed advice as to what it is that MPs (or MEPs!) are to be asked to achieve.
Given that (paraphrasing Pat Malone's words) AOPA has never had such a large postbag advocating action on any other topic, it all seems pretty unimpressive.