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Any news about the new 600kg Microlight/ultralight in Europe?
On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:25:18 -0800, krasw wrote:
Historically (pre-EASA), in gliding world, UK has been land of free like no other for gliding. Or at least that is my impression. Maybe you are heading to that direction again? From what I've read, immediately post-war when the CAA was restarting its civil operations, they looked at gliding, decided they didn't want anything to do with it and handed control to the BGA, where it stayed until the advent of EASA, when we came under the control of the CAA and the BGA became part of the structure (CAMO). Before EASA, UK gliders didn't even carry G-registration: exception was the GSA (military gliding club) that put G-reg on their gliders until at least the early '70s. I only know this because my glider was originally owned by the GSA and I was rather pleased to get its original G-reg back. Historically the CAA and BGA have worked pretty well together and by and large this is still the case. We're heading into chaos at present because a number of greedy *******s are trying to claim considerably more controlled airspace than they need or can justify for their traffic level and think the resulting choke points in class G are SEP. Take a bow, TAG (Farnborough), Oxford and Norwich to name but two. This also happened immediately post-war: they were kicked back into their kennels then and it looks as if the same may happen again. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org |
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