On Friday, 7 October 2016 21:53:57 UTC+3, rianmonnahan wrote:

Yeah... this sounds like a plausible version of the events surrounding JS's certification efforts.

Even the Jonkers point to a political issue:

Cf. http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/art...ion-2015-07-24

It appears Jonkers thought instead of going for full EASA cert from the beginning, it would be easier and cheaper to change legislation to accept bilatelar cert between SA and EASA. Obviously this was a huge mistake by JS which cost them 5 years.

Now if EASA stalls normal certification process, it should be sued on the spot. I do know that it is not unheard of (case Robinson R66), to great shame of EASA, and it is simply unacceptable. But blanket statement that no foreign aircraft could not achieve certification is just childish. Cessna, Piper, Cirrus plus dozens of other manufacturers have absolutely no problems achieving EASA certification to their products.