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by alioth
Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:24 pm
Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
Topic: Mod Approval
Replies: 2
Views: 2791

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...
by alioth
Wed May 26, 2021 3:37 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: Ofcom EMF Requirements – further LAA comment
Replies: 2
Views: 1731

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...
by alioth
Wed May 26, 2021 2:25 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: CAA Consultation
Replies: 20
Views: 16432

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.
by alioth
Mon May 24, 2021 1:42 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: CAA Consultation
Replies: 20
Views: 16432

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...
by alioth
Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:19 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: COVID Latest DfT advice, no leisure flying permitted.
Replies: 9
Views: 4032

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...
by alioth
Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:43 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: Spectrum/Ofcom
Replies: 1
Views: 1025

Re: Spectrum/Ofcom

I had the same problem - I ignored it, since they had sent the licence in the post.
by alioth
Fri May 10, 2019 10:36 am
Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
Topic: Instruments article feedback
Replies: 15
Views: 10015

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...
by alioth
Wed May 08, 2019 5:40 pm
Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
Topic: Instruments article feedback
Replies: 15
Views: 10015

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...
by alioth
Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:39 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: Time in LAA permit aircraft to no longer count...
Replies: 1
Views: 1719

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...