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KC calls for parliamentary solution to SATS regulatory embuggerance -    

Following on from this part of AMROBA's latest newletter: (ref: https://amroba.org.au/wp-content/uploads...sue-10.pdf )

2. Do We Have a Government Small Aircraft Transport (SAT) Policy?

Before the review era started in the 1980s, Australia had a small aircraft transport system. Today, the EU is further ahead with their SAT system which we once had.

“general and business aviation complements regular air transport performed by commercial airlines and thus provides specific social and economic benefits such as increasing the mobility of citizens, the productivity of businesses and regional cohesion”.
** European Parliament Resolution of 3 Feb 2009 on an Agenda for Sustainable Future in General and Business Aviation.

Quote: “EU 2009: SATS aims at the segment of the transport market that is not served by scheduled air transport or high-speed trains, which today results in a substantial need for road travel for short to medium distances, to answer the specific needs of. business and other users. --- The small aircraft transport mode can fill a gap, which exists between Surface Transport and regular mass Air Transport.” Unquote.



Quote: USA: 2005. The challenge is to create a new mode of transport by wider use of small aircraft using local and regional airports, enabling access to more communities in less time. The SATS concept of operations uses small aircraft for business and personal transportation, for ondemand, point-to-point travel between smaller regional, reliever, general aviation and other landing facilities, including heliports. The SATS architecture contemplates near-all-weather access to any landing facilities in the U.S. SATS would leverage Internet communications technologies for travel planning and scheduling, which would also minimize user uncertainty regarding destination services. Unquote.

Where is Australia’s politically supported Small Aircraft Transport System?

The SATS RIS includes the 10 compliance cost categories: education, enforcement, notification, permission, procedural, publication and documentation, purchase cost, record keeping, delay and other. The cost categories, except ‘purchase cost’ and ‘delay cost’, are labour activity based internal costs. ‘Delay costs’ are the expenses and loss of income incurred as a result of an application or approval delay and can be in the form of labour or non-labour related costs.

EU continued: “A possible visionary European (Australian) Transport System should be based on an environmentally sustainable, cost efficient, safe, seamless and co-modal passenger friendly system aiming to ensure mobility and cohesion for the European citizens while enabling economic growth. More people and greater economic affluence mean more mobility and more transport. Some studies suggest that the number of cars in the world will increase from around 700 million today to more than 3 billion in 2050, creating serious sustainability problems unless there is a transition towards lower and zero-emission vehicles and a different concept of mobility is introduced in an environmentally friendly way.”

Communication from the European Commission.

A sustainable future for transport: towards an integrated, technology-led and user-friendly system. Brussels, 17 June 2009.  

I note the following from off Oz Flying yesterday:

AMROBA calls for Parliamentary Resolution
8 November 2018

Ken Cannane, Executive Director of the Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association (AMROBA) yesterday called for a parliamentary resolution to support regulatory change in aviation.

Following up on similar initiatives in the US congress and the European parliament, Cannane said he believed a resolution in federal parliament in Australia was needed to encourage growth in general aviation.

"Australia aviation, outside the mass transport systems of the airlines, need a vision of the future that benefits all," Cannane said.

"In 2004 the US House passed a Bill supporting the small aircraft transport system (SATS) and in 2009, the EU parliament passed a resolution to support a similar SATS."

SATS includes the use of private aircraft for personal transport under FAR Parts 91 and 135 and EU PART OPS, as well as all levels of commercial uses except the mass transport system.

The EU resolution, passed in February 2009, said in part: “general (includes private flights) and business aviation complements regular air transport performed by commercial airlines and thus provides specific social and economic benefits such as increasing the mobility of citizens, the productivity of businesses and regional cohesion.”

"Since adopting the EU Resolution, design, manufacture, maintenance, private, business and light commercial operations are growing in the EU," Cannane said.

"We need a parliamentary resolution to guide regulatory development."

AMROBA is a member of the Australian General Aviation Alliance (AGAA) and has encouraged other AGAA members to adopt a parliamentary resolution as part of the alliance agenda.

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/lates...hwKQTuo.99

 
Gotta hand it to KC, not only does he support his arguments and ideas for change/reform with well documented facts and international examples but his timing in the current political climate, leading up to an election, is impeccable - as usual the choc frog is in the mail KC...  

MTF...P2