IAOPA’s newsletter from October 2010
http://www.iaopa.eu/mediaServlet/f_1001723_current.html
IAOPA’s newsletter from November 2010
http://www.iaopa.eu/mediaServlet/f_1001730_current.html
Jan Brill from ‘Pilot und Flugzeug’ in Germany has also written a useful feature, which can be found at:
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IAOPA’s letter to the European Commission can be found at: IAOPA letter on Third Country Licenses.
To summarise, if you have an N-registered aircraft and hold an FAA license then these proposals (which seem to be solely politically-motivated and not based on any safety implication) will directly affect you.
The contents of the opinion were only made available with very short notice but IAOPA, as well as many other pilot groups and aviation organisations, lobbied hard to get the decision set aside until there had been enough time to assess the impact properly. This lobbying was successful, in that the decision was set aside until December 2010.
If you feel strongly about these proposals and the impact that they will have on you, then the very best thing you can do is to make your voice heard as soon as possible. The more people that voice their concerns, the more chance there is of these EASA proposals being looked at sensibly. As we are doing, we would suggest that you write to your national Members of European Parliament, especially those in the Transport Committee.
A list with the contact details for Members of European Parliament can be found at: Contact details of Members of the European Parliament.
And with contact details for members of the Transport Committee at: Members of the EP Transport Committee .
We would urge you to keep yourself informed, and to subscribe to the IAOPA Europe newsletter at
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