Just to bang "my drum" a little more on the N reg issue. This a reply
---From a friend of mine in the USA who also the CAA's proposal for banning
foreign registered aircraft. It's a bit tongue in cheek, but not much..!
Alan
Situation sux, big time. First your guns, now your airplanes. And then?
According to their own figures, 500 to 1500 aircraft is 11 to 21% of
the total NON TURBINE GA fleet in the UK - which tells me there are
more C150/152s operating in the US than there are piston engine
airplanes in the UK. And you guys are not a poor country - your
standard of living is comparable to ours.
Also tells me the CAA really *is* the campaign against aviation.
Having taught the CAA PPL test syllabus personally for the past seven
years, I can say from my own experience that the CAA is totally MIRED
and utterly STUCK in the 1930s. The test covers such vital items like
the 1 in 60 rule, and you saw how much good that did Amelia Earhart -
who was the last person to actually try it. It also makes a big thing
about the wet sump vs. dry sump difference between modern engines
(anything newer than 1950) and archaic crap like the radial engine in
a CJ-6 (Chinese knockoff of the Yak 52) - and just how many people
learn to fly in Harvards or AT-6s or CJ-6s anyway? And they do love
their ADFs - another utterly archaic, wildly unreliable, difficult to
interpret relic of the dark ages of aviation.
Bulletins from 2005 . . . GPS? Carbon fiber? Glass cockpit? Oh, no,
we want you to fly a stick and rag aeroplane and navigate with Morse
code.
GBP149 to issue a PPL? And what do you get? A page of paper, and they
write down your address so they'll know where to harass and bill you
in the future?
Remember me joking about the UK becoming the 51st state? Doesn't
sound so much like a joke any more, does it?
Best,
Mike
PS - Ela sends "her condolences".
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