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Cover reds copy:Cover 19/5/13 18:05 Page 1 £4.25 (free to members and students) eneraleneral AOPA The journal of the Aircraft Owners and GG viationviation Pilots Association JUNE 2013 NowNow we we are are 9 9 AA RedRed Arrows Arrows roar roar back back to to full full strengthstrength for for 2013 2013 season season IMC Rating EASA twists the knife MyMy Falco Falco and and the the Spitfire Spitfire page ad:Cover 19/5/13 18:22 Page 2 Aviation Insurance Does YOUR aviation insurance policy do ‘what it says it does on the tin?’ Contact Hayward Aviation for alternative quotations for your next aircraft insurance renewal Call 0207 902 7800 or e-mail [email protected] www haywards.net Tel 0207 902 7800 HAL/0513/1041 Authorised and regulated by Financial Conduct Authority contents rrr:contents 19/5/13 18:00 Page 1 AOPA eneral G viation Contents A JUNE 2013 48 44 20 Via Philip Jarrett 4 Chairman’s Column 32 Airfields in peril 48 Learning on the Mossie None so blind… by George Done Steve Slater explains how to David Ogilvy continues his personal safeguard your landing site history of RAF training in the 5 AOPA Working for You mid-1940s IMC rating – the fight goes on; IAOPA 34 Malta meet seminar at European Parliament; IAOPA Europe meets in Malta to dangerous goods nonsense; tried the debate the issues of the day. 34 online GAR? AOPA Pilot Shop opens; Pat Malone reports Red Tape Challenge; mandatory CO detectors 40 Briefings: FOG for kids; Winkle and the M.52; 20 Falco and Spitfire Alderney fly-in; Cecilia goes solo at 14 A formation flight with a Spitfire remembered by Falco builder 44 Friedrichshafen Colin Ferns Aero shows why it’s GA’s major European event. By Pat Malone 24 EASA licences Your cut-out-and-keep guide to EASA 47 Letters to the editor licensing. By Nick Wilcock IMC rating; online GAR filing; red tape 26 Red Arrows 26 Once again nine-strong and well- practiced, the Red Arrows put an awful year behind them. Paul Smiddy reports 32 General Aviation June 2013 3 Masthead editorial rrr:Masthead editorial 19/5/13 18:17 Page 4 AOPA Chairman’s message eneral None so blind… G viation one so blind as those that will not see” is the proverb that sprang to mind “Non reading the EASA Ruling Directive’s Opinion No 03/2013 on ‘Qualifications for flying in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC)’. The A particular opinion that stimulated the thought is a small sub-paragraph 2.4.2.4 entitled ‘Request to maintain national ratings’ which, in a nutshell, explains why June 2013 EASA will not extend flexibility to NAAs to maintain national ratings such as the UK IMC Rating. More detail and analysis is to be found elsewhere in this issue of Editor and publisher: Pat Malone General Aviation, but the opinion, whilst apparently recognising that there may be Contributing editors: David Ogilvy, Steve Copeland ‘…an adverse impact on safety…’ is based on the apparent need not to ‘…contradict the general concept of a uniform European harmonisation…’ In Published by: Fairweather Media Ltd, other words, European uniformity trumps safety! The The Studio, Kettys Close, Withiel, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 5NR. Tel: 01208 832975. opinion makes reference to Annex 2 of the Basic Fax: 01208 832995 Regulation (EC No 216/2008) which sets out the principal objective of EASA ‘...to establish and Advertisements: David Impey, Head of Advertising, AOPA UK, maintain a high uniform level of civil aviation safety The British Light Aviation Centre in Europe…’ This, at least, defines the direction in 50a Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4QQ which safety standards should be heading; however, +44 (0) 207 834 5631 +44 (0) 7742 605 338 in the introductory paragraphs of the Basic Regulation under ‘Whereas (5)’, it is considered that Design: David Tarbutt common rules are not altogether appropriate for Printing: Holbrooks Printers Ltd aircraft of ‘simple design or operate on mainly a local Articles, photographs and news items from basis’, which is taken to include most GA aircraft, AOPA members and other readers are that only a uniform level of safety needs to be welcome. Ideally they should be on a disk, or provided. So, when safety standards in European countries are significantly they can be emailed to [email protected]. different, it is all right for high safety standards in one country to fall and aviation Photographs may also be emailed to this fatalities to increase if it means better uniformity, right? address. They should be high-resolution Whilst penning this article, news came in that Mike Barnard, currently a (300DPI). Alternatively, hard copy and Director of the Light Aircraft Association and of the General Aviation Safety photographic prints or slides can be posted to Fairweather Media Ltd at the address above. Council (GASCo), and a PPL since 1994, has been appointed General Aviation While every care is taken with submitted Programme Manager at the CAA. We at AOPA wish him every success in this material, we cannot make absolute important position, and look forward to working with him closely on all general guarantees that material will be returned in perfect condition. aviation matters. As his role will cover EASA regulated, as well as national Annex II, areas, and the CAA has committed itself to maintaining the IMC Rating or Material for consideration for the August issue of equivalent for UK pilots for the long term future, we hope he will have no General Aviation should be received by 1st July, 2013 difficulty in picking this issue up quickly and running with it. Another aviation colleague worthy of note is long-standing AOPA member John © British Light Aviation Centre Ltd, from whom Murray, whom I hope not to embarrass too much by mention here. John is a permission can be sought to reproduce any item. Views expressed in General Aviation are not member of the AOPA Members Working Group and he has entertained us (it’s the necessarily those of AOPA. way he tells ’em!) with talk of his struggle over many, many months to establish the on-line GAR (General Aviation Report) that is now available free for all pilots, Published by AOPA, which is a member of the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot whether or not they are members of AOPA, by downloading the necessary off the Associations. AOPA website. Although the system would simply not exist but for John’s AOPA office: dedication and prolonged persistence, the system belongs to the UK Border The British Light Aviation Centre Agency and AOPA provides an approved portal. An app for Android devices is 50a Cambridge Street also available. London SW1V 4QQ AOPA members will be aware that AOPA owns the building at 50a Cambridge Telephone: 020 7834 5631 Fax: 020 7834 8623 Street near to Victoria Station in London. The basement and ground floors were E-mail: [email protected] leased to Transair for one of their retail outlets for a period of 13 years up until the Web: www.aopa.co.uk end of 2012 when Transair moved out. AOPA has taken the opportunity to £4.25 refurbish these two floors and re-establish a pilot shop on the ground floor under (free to members and students) eneral AOPA AOPA ownership and in collaboration with aviation goods supplier AFE. AOPA The journal of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association G viation JUNE 2013 members will receive a discount on items bought in the shop. The basement has Now we are 9 A Red Arrows roar back to full strength for 2013 season been furnished to accommodate meetings of up to 16 – 20 people, thereby IMC Rating EASA twists saving the significant annual cost of holding meetings in nearby rented rooms. the knife When not occupied for a meeting, the basement area will be free for members to use as a place to meet, rest or relax whilst en route, with coffee, biscuits and Front cover: Red Arrows other facilities provided. Looking forward to seeing you there! Crown copyright My Falco and the Spitfire George Done 4 General Aviation June 2013 wfu :GA 19/5/13 19:13 Page 5 IMC rating – EASA says no By Nick Wilcock to use their rating privileges where ATS ratings be maintained.’ providers mandate the use of English. ‘The Agency fully appreciates the t the end of April EASA finally revealed EASA’s Opinion 03/2013 also adopts stakeholder reasoning of allowing MS Aits proposals concerning future the reduced requirements which IAOPA (member states) to requirements for IMC flight in Europe in Europe has called for in respect of credit maintain some of their their document ‘Opinion 03/2013’, signed for ‘third country’ (e.g. FAA) IRs towards national licences, ratings, by their Executive Director Patrick the C-bM IR. No theoretical examinations and certificates. It is true AOPA Goudou. Compared with their original will be required, provided that the pilot that this may not have an Comment Response Document, there has at least 50 hrs flight time under IFR adverse effect on safety, have been some slight changes, mostly to in aeroplanes and demonstrates adequate however, it would increase the availability of the proposed theoretical and practical ability during the contradict the general Working for En-Route IFR Rating and the Competency- Skill Test, that will suffice. Our action will concept of a uniform based Modular Instrument Rating, one of probably have saved such pilots European harmonisation € YOU the main changes being that a Night hundreds, if not thousands of uros as a and the aim of creating a Rating will no longer be needed in order result.