GA Community: bringing people together in a team beyond EASA

This year’s AERO (Friedrichshafen, 18-21 April 2018) was again a success for the EASA GA Roadmap team and the European GA community representatives who, for the past years, have been working relentlessly for easier, better and lighter rules for the General Aviation community. The milestones and latest achievements of the GA Roadmap (see the Featured Topic plus the links further below for more details), which has now come close to completing its original list of actions , were presented at our stakeholder & press event at AERO.

The reactions to the event were encouraging – “enlightening, confident, open in a mutual manner, motivating to take on the challenges and opportunities of the future in a positive and curious spirit” – these were some of the impressions given.

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IAOPA, Michel Erb in Interview

The International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) supports more than 400000 pilots and its present in around 80 countries worldwide, can you tell us more about its role?

The International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) is a non-profit federation of 79 autonomous, non-governmental, national General Aviation (GA) organizations. IAOPA has represented international GA aviation for more than 55 years. The combined total of individuals represented by these constituent member groups of IAOPA is over 400,000 pilots, who fly general aviation aircraft for business and personal transportation. Today IAOPA has 30 affiliates in Europe, which is the most active IAOPA region in the world.

Some of the main IAOPA objectives are to facilitate the movement of general aviation aircraft internationally, for peaceful purposes and to coordinate with other international and national organizations to promote and represent better understanding of general aviation's requirements. Furthermore we also encourage representatives of national general aviation member groups to meet with and work with their national authorities in the interest of general aviation; the collection from ICAO Contracting States and dissemination by ICAO of information, data and statistics relating to general aviation to provide a meaningful base for development of technical programs.

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The EASA GA Roadmap

The EASA General Aviation (GA) Roadmap was initiated 5 years ago. It commits to progress towards lighter, simpler and better regulation for General Aviation. In the past 3 years, EASA has worked relentlessly on the action items enumerated in the GA Roadmap, delivering in accordance with its commitments and close to completing the original list of rulemaking activities.

We are further striving to incorporate our 6 GA strategic principles.* We have also been able to achieve several of our strategic key objectives (namely, to develop the use of industry standards for CS-23 reorganisation to allow and promote the introduction of new technology, and the Standard Changes and Repairs Process). 

Following the rule changes, we have to work hand-in-hand with the Member States to ensure swift implementation: simpler certification process; simplify and reduce aircraft maintenance costs – Part-M Light, Part-CAO; allow training for private pilot outside Approved Training Organisation – Part-DTO; and facilitate access to IFR flying.

Let us give you a brief update and insight into these actions. Some of them have entered or will soon enter the implementation phase.

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1st EASA GA Community - Be part of the discussion!

Your new communication channel to meet and share your passion for General Aviation is now open on EASA website. Everyone interested can become a member of the GA community and connect with others who are passionate about GA. Use the GA community site to share insights, discuss topics of interest and keep each other updated on the latest developments and events related to General Aviation.

For you, it is a way to be part of the GA Community and contribute to the continuous effort to make GA safer.

• Discuss the new European Campaign on Airspace Infringements. Share your own ideas and personal experiences on how to avoid airspace infringements. Tell us about the specific difficulties faced in your country.
• Contribute to the revision of CS-STAN. Provide your suggestions for new standard changes and repairs. Ask your questions directly to our experts…
• Discover and promote GA events. Keep up-to-date with GA events organised by EASA. Feel free to add your own events to the calendar and share them with the rest of the GA community
• Check out the latest topics of our comic strip “Sunny Swift” for GA professionals
• And add your own topics!

Join the GA community and be part of the discussion at https://www.easa.europa.eu/community/ga

Latest News

24 May 2018: EASA meets with airlines, crew members and authorities to support implementation of flight time limitations rules

22 May 2018: Requirements for Air Traffic Services updated

30 April 2018: J-News: Issue 1

23 April 2018: EASA’s Management Board re-elects Patrick Ky as the Agency’s Executive Director

12 April 2018: Avoiding airspace infringement – launch of EU-wide campaign for General Aviation pilots

11 April 2018: EASA strengthen ties with Central American Safety Agency

2 March 2018: EASA working on proposals to clarify the crediting for and use in training of certain Basic Regulation Annex II aircraft

22 February 2018: EASA publishes the first Opinion on safe drone operations in Europe

16 February 2018: EASA publishes the 2018-2022 European Plan for Aviation Safety

14 February 2018: Introducing Sunny Swift…

9 February 2018: Follow-up EASA project supports integration of Western Balkans, Turkey

5 February 2018: EASA issues single Production Organisation Approval to Airbus Helicopters

Upcoming Events

29-30 May 2018: 2nd ENISA training on aviation cybersecurity co-organized with EASA (in Athens)

4-5 June 2018: STC Workshop 2018

5-6 June 2018: 1st OPTICS2 Workshop - Aviation Cybersecurity

7 June 2018: 8th meeting of European National Continuous Monitoring Coordinators

14 June 2018: Occurrence Reporting Explained (ACI Europe/EASA in Frankfurt airport)

19-21 June 2018: 2018 FAA-EASA International Safety Conference (in Washington D.C)

21 June 2018: Workshops (focused consultation) on balloon licensing requirements (‘rulebooks’)

26 June 2018: Workshop (focused consultation) on sailplane licensing requirements (‘rulebooks’)

27-28 June 2018: Workshop on Area 100 Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes: theoretical knowledge courses for the ATPL, MPL and CPL (aeroplanes / helicopters)

4-6 September 2018: 2nd Space Weather Workshop

SAVE THE DATEs!

2018 EASA-CAAC Aviation Safety Conference, from 29-31 October 2018 in Madrid (Spain)

Product Certification & Design Organisation Approval Workshop 2018, on 30-31 October in Cologne

EASA Annual Safety Conference: Promoting Safety together: a vision for the future of General Aviation, on 6-7 November 2018 in Vienna

High level Conference on Drones - at RIA Amsterdam Drone week, on 27-28 November 2018 in Amsterdam

12th Rotorcraft Symposium on 4-5 December 2018 

Amsterdam Drone Week
From the 26th – 30th of November 2018 Amsterdam will be the centre where the global UAS community meets. Launching the first Amsterdam Drone week, this initiative is co-created by the European drone industry, with the aim of connecting science and regulatory bodies, corporates and start-ups.
As part of the Amsterdam Drone Week, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) hosts their High Level Conference on Drones 2018 from the 27th – 28th November 2018 at RAI Amsterdam. Together with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management EASA organizes this 2 day event for European drone experts, policy makers and leading companies in the drone industry. Themes that will included are: like future applications, the development of U-space as well as regulation needs related to safety, security and privacy.

Details on these and other upcoming EASA News & Events are available here.