EASA/FAA and Ultralights/General Aviation
Question: Since the last 20 years in GA I am wondering whether EASA is making mistakes. A lot of pilots these days choose for an Ultralight license over a PPL...why? And in general is EASA making the sky safer or just the opposite?
Seems like aircraft/ULM owners are more and more trying to avoid the over-regulated or in a few cases nonsense regulated EASA concerning Maintenance and Licensing on GA leaving the slowly growing or overtaking ULM market alone with some consequences. General Aviation is a dying breed and that I know for sure. In Belgium for example there were one day in the nineties about 4000 registered GA aircraft. I believe now it's down to only about 2000....so where are all the aircraft gone then? Should GA regulations be a bit back to the basics, OR ULM regulations a bit more to the basics? Love to hear your thoughts about this because I think EASA is missing the big picture focusing only on GA.
Last edited by africanbushpilot; 13th Feb 2012 at 14:06.