Slight off topic, but would someone mind explaining what the whole point of EASA is?
In this age of financial austerity - if it ain't broke - don't fix it, and don't spend money on bureaucrats in Brussels finding problems for solutions.
Are there any specific problems which actually DO need to be addressed, over and above leaving the us with the status quo? And what will it offer over the much maligned (but thankfully nowhere as crazy as EASA) CAA?
This whole LAPL thing - will that add anything to the licencing options already available to us? i.e. the NPPL, PPL (in it's various forms) etc?
Each time I read a thread about EASA it seems to be self serving bureaucracy rather than anything of any value, however, I may be missing something which it WOULD be useful for. Can anyone enlighten me?