Claim re contribution towards the cost of 8.33 kHz radio

[ChampChump]

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[John Dean]

Just checked my bank account and, as promised, my payment is there.

In my case, it's not a life changing amount but at least it's enough to pay my permit renewal fee!

[John Brady]

At the General Aviation Partnership meeting a couple of weeks ago the CAA explained that the EC rules said they had to pay the applicant and claim it back from the EC as a bulk bid in arrears. As a result the project had a cash flow problem and they needed to pay what they could and then wait for the EC to pay them before moving on to the next batch. So it is not just the CAA being dilatory.

The CAA also told us there had been claims relating to 5100 aircraft. The total cost subsidy was £3.3m and at 20% of the total that means that applicants paid £13.3M themselves. The total cost of 8.33 per aircraft is therefore about £3,250 on average. My calculations are that there are about 12,776 GA type aircraft with VHF licences so 7,676 owners (including me) paid the full price = about £25m. Add the £13.3M above gives a whole cost to the GA sector of £38.3M. This is about what EASA estimated. We have previously quoted £30M as the cost to GA of this programme to provide more frequencies for commercial operations. And of course for LAA members and many others it is a cost out of taxed income rather than from expenses against revenue before tax as one might find in the commercial sector.

John
Airspace4All Ltd

[John Price]

Thanks John,

That explains an awful lot!

John.