On 2008-03-30, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
The reason they fly US reg'd airplanes in western Europe is to escape
the beaurocratic, anal retentive and exorbinately expensive authorities
that exist there.

The head of the new EASA organisation has said that he wants to see a
regulatory environment that allows GA to thrive, 'similar to the US'
(paraphrasing his words).

I'll believe it when I see it.

Already, EASA have forced us to register gliders and put them on a full
C of A (it used to simply be administered by the British Gliding
Association in British airspace), which is a severe step in the *wrong*
direction, since it adds considerable bureaucracy to glider operations
that wasn't there before. So I remain deeply skeptical.

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From the sunny Isle of Man.
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