Light Aircraft Association

You are so right Mach 2. If you do not send your opinions to the CAA then they will do exactly what they want. I know its a pain to complete but if we do not swamp them with negatives about mode S, expect it to be MANDATORY 1st April 2012. :evil: All the data you need is on this website!!! :D So com...

I wonder were he fitted his Mode S transponder ?

John.

Then we'd be certain to crash!!

John.

My son James has been flying with me since he was 6 Mths old. Mind you we have yet to crash.

Aren't all the Europa's off to Shobdon on the same day ?

John.

I would suggest having a chat with your inspector he will prob just want to sign it off as approval for the installation has already been given.

John.

John,
Connections are fine, Antenna is standard Europa fit in the tail.

Mike,
I can recieve Thames Radar no problem. Just not Gatwick APP. Transceiver is a good panel fit piece of kit.

Completely puzzled.

John.

Whilst flying our Europa yesterday I had trouble Picking up Gatwick Approach/Dir on 126.825, no problem with the comms from other aircraft just ATC, no problems with any other ATC unit either. My VHF is a panel mounted Narco Com810+ TSO, any thoughts anyone ?

John.

Check out the consultation on the NATS website. It looks like theres a major change in the South East airspace. There will probably be no gain for general aviation. Only loss.

John.

When I did my VHF licence I had to do both written and practical exam this was circa 1982 does this not count for anything anymore ??

John

Sorry I missed the meeting on Saturday, but do any attendees have any initial feed back for us . Was it informative ? Or did the CAA just turn up and say nothing and thus promise nothing, and will probably do what they want anyway seeing as they are not footing any bill .

John.

Possibly so that they will get an exact number of aircraft which are mode A& C equipped plus registrations and a contact.

John.

If anybody is thinking of flying down to Spain this year I have the contact details of the chap that you should foward your request to, Plus an outline of a request in Spanish. This seemed to work as it only took 3 weeks for an approval .

John.

I have the Skydrive unit fitted in my Europa. It only took about 2hrs to fit, plus a bit of glueing time. Since then we have had no instances of carb icing. Fitted probably only adds about 1 lb to the weight of the aircraft. No paperwork needed just get your inspector to sign it off.

John.

If you go to the Mode S consultation doccument and go to Annex J the CAA have given a rather unusual exemption if you are building.