The long war............EASA
AOPA are engaged in a long with the unaccountable, unelected, and disproportionate overseeers of aircraft regulation within Europe.
This organisation is on a path to oppress those who want to fly small aircraft be deliberately strangelling us with totally disproportionate legislation intended to distroy light aviation by a thousand small cuts.
EASA charges three times as much as the UK CAA for a minor modification, to get an STC you have to open your Chequebook and just let then take as much as they want, they do this in the name of "safety" but the truth of the matter is these people would not know safety if it bit them on the bum, all they want is you out of the sky or confined to some small underpowered microlight that cany carry enough fuel to go anyplace.
To counter the very worst type of Fedralist Euopean imperialism we need the likes of AOPA to fight the GA corner, it will be a long war but it is vital that we support the likes of AOPA in this fight for the very existence of GA.