CAA invents yet another charge !
 

Untill last year if your aircraft was out of maintenance check and it needed to be moved an engineer licenced on the type could authorise a flight under "A" conditions to fly the aircraft to a maintenance base.

Now the engineer has to get the CAA invloved to authorise a flight under "A" conditions as you might guess the CAA take no technical responsabilty that is all down to the licenced engineer.

I am told that the CAA charge for this paperwork that adds nothing to air safety is £80.

In fact I think that this action will put more pressure on aircraft pilots & owners to get the aircraft to a maintenance base on time and they may feel pressued to do this in weather conditions that they would not normaly fly in to avoid the paperchase and the £80 fee.

Safety And The Caa
 

Well said A&C.
Yet again the CAA's so-called 'excellence in regulation' blows a great big hole in aviation safety.

It is now time for all European GA pilots to wake up and face the fact that EASA is just a bean feast for the b(e)urocrats and get together to fight these people who see us as a meal ticket.

The fact is that they don't see the truth.......... the future if they don't stop putting charge on top of charge is to paint N on the side of your aircraft, this will have only one effect the imates of Aviation house at Gatwick will only be able to get a job at another great American institution.

Yes the next time I see the head of GA regulation he will be flipping burgers because him and his like will have killed the the industry that feeds them.

"A big mac & chips please" ..................still at lease they will still have subsitised food!!

Bit late, he's retired and the dept closed down!

Wot GAD? I think they have already killed their own dept. in readiness for EASA.

Good one that......

As with the great British people, we do not complian loud enough, so they roll straight over you. No good writing your complains on this forum start making a noise to the right people. Maybe not make much differance but at least it is a start!!! :E

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