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- Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:24 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Mod Approval
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5158
Re: Mod Approval
While I do love the LAA, the required mod procedure and forms for simple changes to radios seems over the top and unnecessarily burdensome - when you can fit the same radios to a certified aircraft under CS-STAN. I wish the LAA would adopt a principle that its procedures/regs should never be more on...
- Wed May 26, 2021 3:37 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Ofcom EMF Requirements – further LAA comment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2220
Re: Ofcom EMF Requirements – further LAA comment
Only the UK civil service could turn a guideline into hard regulation. :evil: However, it is probably not particularly onerous for us: the transponder is probably the most powerful transmitter on our aircraft but it has a low duty cycle (0.5% or thereabouts). According to Ofcom's calculator, for som...
- Wed May 26, 2021 2:25 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: CAA Consultation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17989
Re: CAA Consultation
The CAA statement does sound like "We hear what you're saying, but we're going to plough on anyway". We'll have to see if the "discuss the findings and work together on the final documents" will result in a substantially favourable outcome.
- Mon May 24, 2021 1:42 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: CAA Consultation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17989
Re: CAA Consultation
Unfortunately the CAA sometimes mistakes regulation that is merely burdensome as regulation that is good. I've responded to this: it appears to directly conflict with not just the DfT independent report from 2019/2020 on GA regulation, but also directly conflict with the spirit of other projects suc...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:19 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: COVID Latest DfT advice, no leisure flying permitted.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4518
Re: COVID Latest DfT advice, no leisure flying permitted.
"There is a misconception that solo flying is entirely COVID-free. It’s not. Even if flying solo, there are risks. In travel to the airfield. Meeting people when you are there" But these risks are absolutely minuscule. There's risks even if you stay at home: the postman might knock on the door, or y...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Spectrum/Ofcom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1079
Re: Spectrum/Ofcom
I had the same problem - I ignored it, since they had sent the licence in the post.
- Fri May 10, 2019 10:36 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Instruments article feedback
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10283
Re: Instruments article feedback
While only a few people of the membership have replied, I think it goes without saying that a lot of the flying membership of the LAA is flying with the LAA to get away from the suffocating hand of more and more things being imposed on us. Imposing a formal test on the pitot/static system seems disp...
- Wed May 08, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Instruments article feedback
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10283
Re: Instruments article feedback
No. A test should not be required. It should be the owner's responsibility to make sure their equipment is accurate enough, if they should fly places where that accuracy is needed. Not all LAA aircraft are flying near the LTMA or up and down the Manchester LLR. *Imposing* a test would be disproproti...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:39 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Time in LAA permit aircraft to no longer count...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1761
Time in LAA permit aircraft to no longer count...
This will be a disaster if it actually comes to pass, and the UK remains in EASA: https://www.euroga.org/forums/non-certified/10132-flight-time-in-annex-2-now-called-annex-1-and-ul-to-no-longer-count-towards-easa-ppl-currency?page=1#196513 The upshot - hours spent flying your LAA permit aircraft may...