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Old 14th December 2010 | 21:03
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IO540
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From: EuroGA.org
2010-10 is "old news" now... AOPA needs to wake up a bit quicker

It contains some inconsistencies (copy/paste typos) which took only minutes of speed-reading to find (I wonder if the legislators will find them). I see AOPA haven't spotted them yet.

The good news is that foreign regs will have no long term parking restrictions, which sweeps away some half c0cked rules contrived in Denmark and possibly 1 or 2 other "European" countries. Such restrictions don't work anyway. (Well, you could apply them against a plane parked in a museum ).

Other good news is that SE ME pistons and SE turboprops will not have any additional maintenance requirements, over their State of Registry requirements (e.g. FAA Part 91).

ME turboprops and jets will have to get a Part M signoff, which in practice will be just a bigger cheque because - in most though not all cases - any company capable of working on these will be EASA 145 anyway. This will upset King Air operators, and will upset the maintenance companies which work on bizjets and which are not EASA 145. These will, I guess, need to enter into an alliance with an EASA 145 company. This is all just a fundraising sham and a nod to the EASA CAMO axe grinders, most of whom work on N-regs already and charge them the full Part M rates, citing "insurance costs"

That's my understanding - feel free to correct me

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