“I rest My case M'lud.” (or: Hoi, cloth ears~!)
The paragraph below, cribbed from the - LMH – leads to a succinct, if a little oblique message for AOPA Aus. The hint is contained within the acronym 'MOSAIC'.
Hitch - “But this year, there really is only one announcement that people are aching for: MOSAIC. Unfortunately, the mail is that it won't come ... again. This is the long-awaited modification of the rules surrounding LSAs, which will expand the definition, remove the arbitrary MTOW and permit new technology not imagined when the first LSA standard was written. The FAA is yet to finalise the new regs, and the general aviation community is watching nervously, knowing that the legislative deadline for doing so is November this year.”
'Sport Pilot' provides a satisfactory explanation of the proposal; (MOSAIC) and for the LSA crowd, it is looking like good news on the horizon, well for the USA contingent at least, and perhaps Europe will follow the FAA lead – who knows? But, from both a safety perspective and 'utility' for touring it seems to be an advance. You can bet your boots RA Aus will be hoping CASA adopt the program (with unique Australian codicils Alas). But I digress.
My point is that the proposed changes have been 'husbanded' with much support and lobbying through the efforts of well organized, carefully funded and managed groups who are able to credibly approach and negotiate with the regulator. You cannot gain this level of 'entre' without numbers supporting and the finance to back it. Even then, 'credibility and respect' must (absolutely) have been established. Any organisation which has seriously offended 'the powers that be' has a tiny membership and little to recommend in the way of logical persuasive argument will never influence the regulator.
AOPA could and should be represented in this matter; RA Oz will be and they are a furlong further along toward the winning post than AOPA. Time to sort things out, get weaving and gain the same objectives MOSAIC offers for the long suffering AOPA members..
Toot – toot...
The paragraph below, cribbed from the - LMH – leads to a succinct, if a little oblique message for AOPA Aus. The hint is contained within the acronym 'MOSAIC'.
Hitch - “But this year, there really is only one announcement that people are aching for: MOSAIC. Unfortunately, the mail is that it won't come ... again. This is the long-awaited modification of the rules surrounding LSAs, which will expand the definition, remove the arbitrary MTOW and permit new technology not imagined when the first LSA standard was written. The FAA is yet to finalise the new regs, and the general aviation community is watching nervously, knowing that the legislative deadline for doing so is November this year.”
'Sport Pilot' provides a satisfactory explanation of the proposal; (MOSAIC) and for the LSA crowd, it is looking like good news on the horizon, well for the USA contingent at least, and perhaps Europe will follow the FAA lead – who knows? But, from both a safety perspective and 'utility' for touring it seems to be an advance. You can bet your boots RA Aus will be hoping CASA adopt the program (with unique Australian codicils Alas). But I digress.
My point is that the proposed changes have been 'husbanded' with much support and lobbying through the efforts of well organized, carefully funded and managed groups who are able to credibly approach and negotiate with the regulator. You cannot gain this level of 'entre' without numbers supporting and the finance to back it. Even then, 'credibility and respect' must (absolutely) have been established. Any organisation which has seriously offended 'the powers that be' has a tiny membership and little to recommend in the way of logical persuasive argument will never influence the regulator.
AOPA could and should be represented in this matter; RA Oz will be and they are a furlong further along toward the winning post than AOPA. Time to sort things out, get weaving and gain the same objectives MOSAIC offers for the long suffering AOPA members..
Toot – toot...