Conference: light aviation regulatory changes

[Genghis the Engineer]

I hope that I'll be forgiven posting this, if not no-doubt BRL will move it to the admin forum and b****k me appropriately! My expression of personal interest is that I'm on the organising committee for this, and commercial independence is that it won't make any money, and if it accidentally does, I won't see any of it.

Full details are available via the Royal Aeronautical Society - go to www.raes.org.uk , select specialist groups, then light aviation group.




CHANGES IN LIGHT AVIATION
Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday 29th November 2005
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, Shropshire, UK



Over the last six years, UK general and light aviation has “enjoyed” numerous regulatory changes. These have included moves to JAR and then EASA, the 450kg microlight definition, constantly shifting pilot and engineer licensing and medical requirements, mandatory insurance and ever more difficult planning and taxation regimes. Despite this, and the expectation of more and faster changes, general aviation businesses must continue to operate, and private pilots wish to continue enjoying their recreational flying at reasonable cost.

This conference aims to bring together industry and regulatory key players from throughout general and light aviation, and allow them to demonstrate how these challenges are being faced and overcome, and show all industry players how the current state of flux can be turned to light aviation’s advantage.

The conference draws upon and develops themes from the 2005 RAeS Annual Conference, but is distinct from the Birmingham follow on conference in that the target audience is focused on general aviation, in particular sport and light aviation.

There will also be an evening lecture, jointly with the Cosford Branch, details to be announced. Throughout the day, visits will be possible to the RAF Museum restoration workshops.







CHANGES IN LIGHT AVIATION
Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday 29th November 2005
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, Shropshire, UK


PROGRAMME

09:30 Registration and Coffee

09.55 Introduction & Welcome
Dr Andrew Cave, President, Birmingham & Wolverhampton Branch, Royal Aeronautical Society

10:00 Opening Address
Mike Bell, Group Director Safety Regulation, Civil Aviation Authority

SESSION ONE: DESIGN AND CERTIFICATION OF LIGHT AIRCRAFT
Chairman: Dr Guy Gratton, Vice-Chairman, Light Aviation Group, RAeS

10:30 (1) Moving Light Aircraft Across National Borders
Kevin Russell, Head of Applications and Certifications, UK Civil Aviation Authority

11:10 (2) Light Aviation Group Specialist Paper
John Edgley, Light Aviation Group Committee, Royal Aeronautical Society

11:50 Coffee

SESSION TWO: FLYING TRAINING AND OPERATIONS
Chairman: Barry Tempest, Chief Executive Officer, Armaggedon Associates

12:10 (3) Flying Training in the 21st Century
TBC

12:50 (4) Training on the New Generation of Microlights
Paul Dewhurst, Chief Flying Instructor, Flylight Airsports & Vice-Chairman, British Microlight Aircraft Association

13:30 Lunch

SESSION THREE: LIGHT AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND MANUFACTURE
Chairman: Prof George Done, Chairman, AOPA

14:30 (5) Maintaining the Ageing Fleet
Gp Capt Bill Taylor, Chief Executive, de Havilland Support Ltd

15:10 (6) Dealing with National Authorities
Lt Col Chris Finnigan, Chief Executive, British Microlight Aircraft Association

15:50 (7) Maintaining Light Aircraft in the 21st Century
Mark Wilson, Chief Executive, British Business Aviation and GA Association

16.30 Closing Remarks
Lee Balthazor, Chairman, Light Aviation Group, Royal Aeronautical Society

16:45 Reception hosted by RAeS Cosford Branch

18:00 Evening Lecture: Designing and Testing Britain's Newest Aircraft
Dr Bill Brooks, Technical Director & Chief Test Pilot, P&M Aviation

[MikeGodsell]

Genghis

See "Inquiry into the CAA" particularly David Roberts' post.

EASA regulation 1592/2002 part 21 ARC (airworthiness renewal certificate) and particularly the draft Part M of EU regs which applies to light & sport aircraft. Closing date for comments 24th Nov.

The Cosford conference might be a bit behind events!

My own wish list seems to be at least possible now:

All older non EASA aircraft ( Austers, Chipmunks, etc) administered by PFA or equivalent, retaining national registrations. G-C... F-G...

EASA aircraft (Robin, New Piper/Cessna, etc) would have an ARC renewed annually at any JAR 145 organisation in any EU country. These aircraft would have European registration. Eg: E-1234
EU-ABC ?

The bureaucrats will fight this to the death of course, but eventually engineers will be able to practice engineering and owners can concentrate on maintenance not documentation.

MG

[FullyFlapped]

Genghis, will it be possible to fly in to Cosford for this ?

FF :ok:

[Vedeneyev]

Ahh yes Tuesdays: that day of the week that's famed for keen light a/c and sport pilots having so much free time for combining and airing their views on their latest response to whichever consultation/investigation/regulatory landslide is ongoing this week....

[Genghis the Engineer]

Mike - change is ongoing, and given the list of speakers, I'm pretty certain it'll be up to date.

FF - I believe so, but you'll need to speak to Cosford direct.

V - timed just after the international airsports exhibition at the NEC, so that anybody travelling long distances can readily attend both.

G

[G-KEST]

Genghis,
I thought I would leave you to post on this forum since as a moderator you just might get away with it. I have had less good fortune.
Many thanks.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
:ok:

[Jinkster]

Damn - not here unfortunatley otherwise it would have been great to go!

:(

[MikeGodsell]

Genghis

It is possible to obtain copies of Conference PROCEEDINGS from Eurospan Tel: 020 7240 0856 Fax: 020 7379 0609 e-mail [email protected]

Could you answer a query about these "Proceedings"?

Are they a record of what each speaker said and his replies to questions?
Or are they just a general overview of the conference.
If the former they would be almost as good as being there in person.

[Edited to say I will try to get an answer to my question from Barry Tempest of Armageddon Associates. He posted the reference to Eurospan & Conference Proceedings, on the PFA Bulletin board. He is chairing session two of the conference, for a presentation on flying training]

Sadly I can't justify the expense of non-member fees 100 + vat, plus the cost of accommodation, and the round trip from West Wales.

Best regards

MG

[Genghis the Engineer]

Firstly I've never heard of Eurospan, nor any idea who they are or what they do.

This particular conference proceedings will go onto the RAeS' website sometime after the conference is over. They will comprise of formal papers based upon the presentations of each speaker - as a rule about 2/3 of speakers at these particular conferences do so.

Any questions, informal discussions and so-on won't make it into the proceedings, it's extremely rare that they do for any conference.

G


N.B. Lesley Maynard, MD of Old Sarum flying club has just kindly agreed to present a paper for the 1210 empty slot.