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November 2014 23.60 THE MAGAZINE OF THE LIGHT AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION www.laauk.com NOVEMBER 2014 23.60 • • • • •••• • • •• MA • • •• • • •• " • • • •• • Light Aircraft Association New catalogue now in production - call to reserve your copy today! LA 1::"•411,1 INSTRUMENTS & HARDWARE IOW jk Jaa IS SOS i"U 11FaltM° \Irri "Au iprown CIF c7la 4,fr s'`VALVES SEALANTS & BATTERIES COMPOUNDS *1-3Ea RAW MATERIALS LUBRICANTS PAINTS , DOPES & FABRICS -4i 4`• ' s WINDOWS & TOOLSQ3/41"1"'s411.111411'1, WINDSHIELDS LIGHTS, LAMPS & FILAMENTS INHCF I C pcRRAKFC CONTROL CABLES TYRES ALLtSSLIKIt 41k HOSE & BOOKS .„,--3\ firDUCTING \Pi 414; cel` 117 FILTERS root. a - I a EDITOR'S DESK azahlos Aid Acieg zed ••• •- msYOURASSOCIATION Tell us how you think the AGM should be run — your input really is valued sympathy for those who have forked opt sometimes quite considerable (1 November) and I hope we will have had a reasonable sums ot money fo ensure teat have the right lief/foe. raring or business B attendance.y the time you It read has thisnever we been will have much had of aour 'must AGM do at event Sywell for the arrangement (for schools and instructors/ only to find that the outlay majority of members but it is important because it reiterates that this is wasn't absotutely necessary . an association. our association, and we do have a say in how it is run. Tge feature article this month is Roy Taylor's lovely Bowers Fly Baby. I can say already that there will have been more members' input this an early plans built 'vintage type that unfortunately wasn't popular here year because the response to the drive to get the proxy voting system in the UK but was widely embraced in its native US Roy had previously better understood and used has resulted in around 60 responses as of a built, and still Hes. an RV-9 and tie Fly Harpy was a new bulcikkg fortnight before the event. challenge for him. It is cifkte exquisite, a dekghtful nomebuilt that can We have asked before without a great deal of response but Ts provide hours of affordable fur. worth another shot - how would you like the AGM handed? 4 it were At the opposite end of the spectrum we have the tau of a much available in camera' v;a the web would you aet involved"' How about modified Europa and an update on the night/MC project it being part of a day-long conteibnce with high profile speakers on a ;which hopefully will Le avaiMble for members before next range of LAA relevant subjects? Please give us some ideas so we can season gets Eto lull sw;ng. Back then to a vintage feel elevate what is a viral part ot the association's democratic process from with Dudley Pattisona Rally-winning Flitker. A short- es current doldrumic state. wkiged sporty infer-war years bipkane with a radial It seems that not a day goes by at the moment without news from the engine, that doesn7 get the blood cours;ng through CAA or EASA that some new review or consulfation is underway. ItS your veins fhen mayoe you need to go see a doctor! a bit of a job keeping pace and understanding exactly what impact. To round it o/, we have a report from Nigel if any, they might have on 'our' type of flying. One such consultation Hitchman on the Shuttleworth Air Race air show What that definitely has drawn headlines and MI effect many of us, is the a line-up of rare and fabulous old aeroplanes, many of Brian Hope delaying of the EASA licensing deadlines by three years to April 2018 which you wirl not see anywhere else ki :he world - EDITOR (see News). That will no doubt find a lot of favour but I do have some and mos; of theal fly en an LAA Permit ofllodel,Yraltlaik net THETEAM Patron: HRH Prince Mtchael of Kent. KCVO, Engineering email: ongineet inggiaa uk con LIGHT AVIATION MAGAZINE ERAeS President: Sir John Allison COMMERCIAL Editor: BTan I lope, Chairman: Roger Hopkinson Email: officeglaa.uk com 60 CGeenborough Road. CEO: Philip Hall Office Manager: Penny Sharpe Sheerness, Chief Engineer: Frar icis Donatdson. Head Office: Turweston Aerodrome, Kent ME12 3,97 B Tech C.Eng FRAeS Nr Brackley. Northants NN13 EYD Tel: 01795 662558 Chief Inspector: Ken Crag;r8 Tel: 01280 846786 Email: BFJJociel@laiktalkoet NOVEMBER 2514 I LIGHT AVIATION 03 G-CC p16 AL. 1 tS. 04 LIGHT AVIATION I NOVEMBER 2014 CONTENTS 6 NEWS Euro licensing delay. Biggin Hil seeks INCREMENTALOR REVOLUTIONARY expansion, Government responds to RTC, medicals under examination IMPROVEMENT? 9 JOHN LARROUCAU A tribute to the designer of the Beagle Pup and Bulldog 10 PROJECTNEWS This month's projects include an Kair Hawk. a Europa XS and Blue Too 16 OLD WARDEN RACE DAY This has to have been one of the season's best air displays... 20 CALLISTO By Mike O'Donoghue Nigel Graham has created the Callisto, his own vision of how the Chief Executiveof the General Aviation SafetyCouncil type should have developed 26 PERMITIMC (GASCo) A look at some of the technical standards and operating limitations to operate an LAA aircraft in IMC, under IFR or at night 32BOWERS FLYBABY Steve Jobs clearly knew a thing or two about Clive Davidson enjoys the great but recently GASCo was giving the third Safety business success and perhaps there are lessons priviiege of taking the controls in this IdoEvening not usually of the watch 2014/15 television season in the at Cambridge morning for us to learn from this in flight safely. but what Aero Club and with it being too far for me to travel form would revolutionary change take? In GA, I gorgeous open-cockpit single-seater home after the evening I stayed overnight. The suggest that the most successful avenue for the that positively exudes period charm next morning I found myself tuning in to BBC1 sort of tradsformalion that Steve Jobs described is 40STUMMELFLITZERZ- IRA Breakfast and on the sports report there was a likely to be an abstract concept rather than through lot of talk about how business was learning from Dudley Pattison looks back on the the adoption of rigid processes and regulation. the phenomenal success of British Cycling in 1he voluntary acceptance of straightforward safety emotional and mechanical processes recent years. British Cycling's former Performance management systems and risk assessment all involved with building this Air Director, Sir Dave Brailsford, said he believed play a part, particularly if adopted in the way put Squadron Trophy-winning beauty in the concept of aggregation of marginal gains. forward in Phil Hall's excellent feature in the October apparently something that has also taken the 2014 issue of Light AOation (I especially Irked 46FRENCH CONNECTION business world by storm. Basically, by making small his 'Rule of Three.), but the type of revolutionary Bill Brooks tells the story of how (1%) changes in a number of areas, for instance change needed will only come about when the an accident in France led to a in cycling this mean marginal improvements in the attitudes and behaviour of all those engaged in wonderful family touring holiday in nutrition of riders, their weekly training programme. General Aviation are clearly seen to put safety first his Rotax-powered Jodel Mettsse ergonomics of the bike seat, the weight of the tyres as a matter of course It could thus be said to be a and so on, when put together it returned a winning croup characteristic. Such a characteristic could 50 SAFETYSPOT performance. further be described as a Safety Culture I know Rotax throttle spring bias to fully open This got me wondering whether this approach you put safety first, dear reader. but what about the had claimed another aircraft, proving might be used to describe the approach that remainder of our community? One only has to think yet again that to design a system GASCo has taken with its Safety Evenings I of the recent prosecution of an individual tor flagrant think it could. We suggest a variety of ways in that works opposite to the norm risks bre:aches of safety by falsifying aircraft maintenance which marginal improvements could be made in documentation to realise that there is still some way confusion and mishap in a high- different areas, such as human factors, pre-flight to go. stress situation planning and preparation, visual scan techniques, A Safety Culture is already a feature of many 56 LAA SHOP personal evaluation, keeping skills current and of GASCo members' activities. The growth and making better use of available resources, to name influence of the LAA means that it is already Books, charts, clothing and more hut a few. A 1% improvement in accident and a force for bringing about the necessary 58 MEETTHE MEMBERS incident figures associated with each ot these revoiutionary change in GA. The 'Safety Spot' Former Isaacs Armstrong winner. increments could make a big difference to the feature in this magazine is a prime example of overall number . this in action on the engineering and maintenance Geoff Burroughs. talks about his While the aggregation ot marginal gains may gont. However. rather than rely on revolution alone. flying and his plans for a career as an make enough difference to win sporting events we should continue obtaining safety performance Air Traffic Controller and increase business performance, there is also improvements through incremental change 62 WHERETO GO a view that this alone will never quite reach the of the sort put forward by GASCe in its safety ultimate goal.
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