gar forms online
in the interests of correcting any speculation......
a lot of work has already been done on online forms - I've been doing (under aopa auspices) this with UKBA - it was hoped to have a complete online submission by this summer but there are some delays in Home Office IT. There is a test website already functioning to roll out firstly on AOPA's site which will be free to all comers -other associations may follow suit with their own similar portals. The trial version is already passing GARS and validating them. There are also an iPhone and an Android App doing the same thing, just awaiting final tweaking. We await some further meetings with UKBA and it is hoped all this functionality will all be launched in the next month - sadly a little late for the season but there is further work to do and it is felt better to let the system bed in before the Olympic year. I speak as a private volunteer who has done all of the work - it is in UKBA's hands whether they launch now with a preliminary version or not. We should know shortly. The plan was to incorporate the police at a later date, in any case the aim is to take the guess work out of who to send it to, from the pilot's point of view. This it does successfully now - it is also a much speedier process.