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Air Law update
Changes to Air Law, Licensing and Operation during 2014
Content covers:Changes in Air Law including EASA law
Changes in RT Procedure
Changes in Licensing law
Changes in Airspace inc. TMZ and RMZs
Other relevant matters
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Air law Update
Air Law
Grant Schapps headed up Red Tape challenge, as a result……
CAA set up GA unit headed by Tony Rapson
Promise to deregulate and simplify GA
So far we have had…
Reduction in gold plating
TK exam questions down to 120
Deregulation of single seat microlights
Simplification of maintenance for private GA (Part M light)
SERA delayed (its all the same for a couple of more years)
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Air Law Update
Air Law
ANO (CAP 393)
Amendments are now all underlined in red (latest) and green (recent)
Found on CAA site:https://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP393_ANO_Jan2015.pdf
Mode S required (mostly) in Europe for IFR and mandatory transponder
areas
CAA PPL only has LAPL privileges in EASA aircraft
ATO status requirement put back indefinitely
Training now allowed in sole owned permit aircraft
Reval training allowed in group owned permit a/c
Coffee break
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Radiotelephony
Changes in RT during 2014
Slight change in Basic service, specific traffic information may now be given
CAP 413 will, during 2015, be updated to show amendments in green and
red as in the ANO (same goes for CAP 804)
Handy reference guide
https://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SRG-NATS_RTDISCIP.PDF
Handy guide to visual flight rules (not that new)
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/64/VFR_Guide_2011_update.pdf
Handy guide for VFR phraseology
http://www.atac.ca/web/images/Documents/Phraseology%20Guide%20for%
20GA%20Pilot%20in%20Europe.pdf
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Licensing Law
Simplified Licensing
Requirement to convert to EASA licence delayed till at least 2018
UK PPL and NPPL will be valid until then
All renewals can be endorsed on the licence by the examiner provided the
expired rating is not on the expired ratings side of the licence
As of spring 2015 revalidation by experience can be endorsed on a licence
by certain instructors
Licence/class rating difference. Do you know?
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Airspace
Gold Plating of UK airspace (well it’s never all good news)
London CTR now class D
Poss RMZ around Oxford
CAS now around Southend
Poss CAS around Farnborough – it’s
quiet, too quiet!
All Class F in UK now class E
VORs disappearing
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Other Relevant Matters
Changes and matters not previously covered
VORs disappearing
IR instrument requirements relaxed
IMC under slight threat
CBM IR now law
8.33 MHz radio requirement still coming in
(2019 we think)
Class one or two medical which lapses to
a LAPL medical cannot be used with an
EASA PPL
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Civilised Discussion