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The UK CAA strongly supports the proposed LPL and associated medical provisions as proposed by the Agency and considers it is essential that they go forward
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This is in direct contradiction of the comments of the CAA representative at the AOPA meeting at Duxford on the 18th September. We were told that the CAA were strongly of the opinion that the existing system whereby a GP could sign a medical should continue to stand. [End quote]
I think the first quote was at the stage of the NPA or before (because it refers to the LPL, not LAPL which is the name change in the CRD). That was before certain gremlins got at the LAPL medical and the GP qualification during the post-NPA review stage, the results of which appeared in the CRD in June with the addition of extra GP qualifications etc. Since then there have been 'various conversations' and I know the CAA will be taking a line that very much supports our interests.