GENERAL AVIATION SAFETY STRATEGY PAPER ENDORSED BY THE EASA MANAGEMENT BOARD
David Roberts, EAS President, reports on ‘the first step’ and ‘a majormilestone’

At its meeting on 18th September, the EASA Management Board (MB) endorsed the GA sub group’s paper on a future safety strategy for GA. The MB commissioned the paper in March 2012 following a paper written by EAS with IAOPA (Europe). It is the result of work from April to July of a group of GA personnel including two EAS board members, 5 NAAs, the Commission and EASA, led by the French DGAC’s Patrick Cipriani.
The endorsement is a major milestone in the journey towards a more proportionate approach to European safety rulemaking for GA. The principles, guidelines and 10 recommended actions covered by the paper now have to be programmed into the work of the European Commission, EASA, the Member States and indeed GA representative bodies. This work is unlikely to be concluded in a short period, though some actions are planned to take place over the next six to nine months.

Welcome to the last Europe Air Sports Newsletter of this year. There is news of a number
of Notices of Proposed Amendments and other developments, with some short deadlines if
you want to respond. Please see the dates in red! We wish all our readers a Merry
Christmas and a peaceful New Year in 2013, with many happy landings.

A new year and time for all those resolutions to enjoy ourselves in our favourite air sport and to make the most of the weather, whatever it is. EAS Board members have been busy as usual, working behind the scenes to keep you flying and to slow down the march of regulation. Whatever you fly, we hope that you enjoy the better weather when it arrives and have plenty of great quality flying.

What is the truth about the different rumours that are spreading? These rumours say that there may be changes to the timing and the scope of the approval process of Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) for the PPL, SPL, BPL and the three LAPLs. Her e is the light at the end of the tunnel.

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We have reports here on the recent major developments within EASA and we will svery soon also end you some news on technical matters.

At this stage of the implementation, there is no opportunity/intent to revise the regulation.
Hence, if you seek exemptions for the carriage of 8,33 kHz capable radios you need to discuss and negotiate at the national level.
So far most Member States have chosen not to convert VFR frequencies except in the case of the Netherlands, which mandates 8,33 kHz in its airspace for all VFR flights from 8 January 2015 already.

Over the coming months, critical decisions will be made on, for example:
- simplified procedures for initial airworthiness;
- lighter maintenance requirements through Part-M Light;
- flight training without the excessive organisational requirements for training organisations;
- enablers for IFR flying by GA;
- a new, performance-based structure of regulation, starting with balloons but likely to be extended to other categories of aircraft.

At the same time, the processes by which safety is managed are maturing, moving towards a risk-based approach. This should enable better participation by the GA community in the management of safety, allowing us to prioritise resources on valuable safety initiatives rather than fighting bad rules.