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£4.25 (free to members and students) eneraleneral AOPA GG The journal of the Aircraft Owners and DECEMBER 2013 viationviation AA Pilots Association TenTen Years Years After After AndréAndré Turcat Turcat and and Les Les Brodie Brodie talk talk Concorde Concorde MeetMeet the the new new boss boss EASA’sEASA’s Patrick Patrick Ky Ky promises promises change change RedRed Tape Tape Challenge Challenge gives gives GA GA new new hope hope 320kts The fastest certifi ed single turboprop New with quick change interior 4 persons + 507 lbs Max Range : 1,410 Nm or 6 persons + 330 lbs United Kingdom & Ireland: Daher-Socata - Mark Diaz – Tel.: + 33 (0)6 31 56 29 54 Aura Aviation - Adrian Munday – Tel.: + 44 (0)7599 174184 www.tbm850.com AOPA eneral G viation Contents A DECEMBER 2013 22 48 30 42 Briefings Get SkyDemon now on your iPhone; Breitling backs Vic Norman again; have your plane immortalised on canvas; Tracey Curtis-Taylor in Africa DP Photographics, Cambridge 4 Chairman’s Column 46 Letters 38 By George Done Safeguarding for small airfields? GAR online; saving the IMC; Madeira 5 AOPA Working for You praised Red Tape Challenge lifts GA; New EASA boss Patrick Ky speaks out; five 48 Buy an airfield? years grace on the IMC; CAA’s online Perranporth aerodrome, under threat systems looking good; wins for IAOPA of sale and possible development, on service bulletins, carbon emissions seeks investors, as Pat Malone reports and third country licences; 50 Books infringements going the wrong way Christmas presents for a pilot’s 22 First and last bookshelf On the tenth anniversary of the tragic 54 The High Road final grounding of Concorde, Pat Malone brings together the first and A joy on our doorstep, Scotland offers last Concorde pilots, André Turcat and some fabulous flying, as Bob Darby Les Brodie, to talk through how they explains made history 30 e-Go flies 54 Mick Elborn is present as the first non-regulated design of the modern era takes to the air 34 IAOPA Europe AOPA’s from 18 European countries meet to debate the issues of the day and agree strategy and tactics. Pat Malone reports 38 Talkdown AOPA member Roy Murray gives details of the widely-publicised talkdown in which he was involved at Humberside 40 Training problem Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, in town for the GAPAN awards, warns against relying too much on technology in training pilots. By Pat Malone General Aviation December 2013 3 AOPA Chairman’s message eneral G Progress with EASA on GA viation Significant change to the way general aviation is to be regulated in the UK is under way, more so than at any time in the past several years. The Government’s GA Red Tape A Challenge has been the catalyst for this reorganisation, summarised within this issue of A General Aviation. The CAA has produced a response document that mentions under ‘Common Themes’ the general dissatisfaction with EASA rules and the perception of December 2013 “gold-plating”, which makes the interview, also found within, of Patrick Ky, the recently appointed Executive Director of EASA, particularly pertinent. He clearly recognises that a Editor and publisher: Pat Malone new generation of leaders of the larger National Aviation Authorities, including our own UK CAA, are able and competent individuals backed by ample resources who will help Published by: Fairweather Media Ltd, The Studio, Kettys Close, Withiel, Bodmin, establish a more constructive relationship that will also encompass a more proportionate Cornwall PL30 5NR. Tel: 01208 832975. approach to GA – a welcome sign. Fax: 01208 832995 An example of a more pragmatic approach may be the recently announced 5-year stay of execution for the IMC Advertisements: David Impey, Head of Advertising, AOPA UK, Rating. Patrick Ky’s predecessor, Patrick Goudou, had The British Light Aviation Centre decided to rule against this valuable national rating by 50a Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4QQ allowing uniformity of European regulation to trump flight +44 (0) 207 834 5631 safety. The CAA has been rightly praised for successfully +44 (0) 7742 605 338 pursuing the safety case, but it should be recognised that Design: David Tarbutt without continued and persistent lobbying by AOPA UK, Printing: Holbrooks Printers Ltd the CAA may not have taken up the cudgels, and the rating could have died a death. Another example of a Articles, photographs and news items from fresh attitude within EASA comes from a meeting in AOPA members and other readers are welcome. Ideally they should be on a disk, or November held between EASA staff, including Head of they can be emailed to Rulemaking, Jules Kneepkens, and IAOPA Europe, [email protected]. including representatives from AOPA Germany, Sweden and the UK (Martin Robinson Photographs may also be emailed to this and myself). This concerned the Supplemental Inspection Documents, or SIDs, address. They should be high-resolution published by Cessna that apply to 100 and 200 Series aircraft manufactured before (300DPI). Alternatively, hard copy and photographic prints or slides can be posted to 1986. EASA and the UK CAA have been receiving enquiries about the correct Fairweather Media Ltd at the address above. application of these SIDs, which affect just over 1,000 aircraft in the UK and several While every care is taken with submitted times that in Europe. The inspections are initially visual, but can lead on to more material, we cannot make absolute expensive NDT in the event of corrosion or cracks etc. being spotted. Many of the guarantees that material will be returned in aircraft owners affected are AOPA members in their own country. Queries have arisen as perfect condition. to the mandatory nature of the inspections, and, in line with the FAA, the UK CAA has Material for consideration for the February issue issued an Information Notice (IN-2013/138) providing helpful guidance and underlining of General Aviation should be received by the advisory and non-mandatory aspect. EASA presented to the meeting a draft Safety 1st January, 2014 Information Bulletin (SIB) along similar lines; the ensuing discussion was conducted in © British Light Aviation Centre Ltd, from whom a most helpful and constructive manner. The SIB should be available for comment permission can be sought to reproduce any item. within the next couple of months. Views expressed in General Aviation are not The major difficulty, however, lies not with EASA, whose proposed regulatory action necessarily those of AOPA. appears wholly proportionate, but with interpretation by the country NAAs. In Germany, Published by AOPA, which is a member of the for example, the SIDs are regarded by the regulatory authority (LBA) as mandatory. This International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot has produced something akin to a climate of fear amongst owners of Cessna 152s, Associations. 172s, etc. because advertisements from some maintainers have appeared in the AOPA office: aviation press offering to carry out the inspections for completely disproportionate sums The British Light Aviation Centre of money (€9,980 being one example). This is where IAOPA would opt for consistency 50a Cambridge Street from the NAAs that puts the SIDs at no more stringent a level than that of the FAA. London SW1V 4QQ Telephone: 020 7834 5631 However, as suggested in the interview with M Ky, it may be that in future NAAs are Fax: 020 7834 8623 accorded a greater degree of flexibility in applying the rules. A bit of a conundrum! E-mail: [email protected] Although not apparently a serious problem in the UK, in considering the overall effect on Web: www.aopa.co.uk the viability of general aviation at large we must look beyond our shores and act in unison with our AOPA colleagues in Europe – a reason why part of your subscription to AOPA goes towards IAOPA Europe. £4.25 (free to members and students) On a brighter note, AOPA members I happen to meet at various aerodromes I fly into eneral AOPA G The journal of and elsewhere like to tell me that General Aviation is the best aviation magazine going, the Aircraft Owners and DECEMBER 2013 viation Pilots Association A and, of course, I totally agree. We owe this widely held opinion to Pat Malone, our editor, whose journalistic skills have been long recognised by our readers, but more recently by The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators with the 2012 Award for Aviation Journalism, presented at a ceremony in October. He is far too modest to proclaim this Front cover: achievement himself, so I do it here. Well done, Pat! Ten Years After André Turcat and Les Brodie talk Concorde Concorde Meet the new boss EASA’s Patrick Ky promises change Peter R March Red Tape Challenge gives GA new hope George Done 4 General Aviation December 2013 believe we’ve seen a sea change in official Slashing red tape for GA attitudes towards general AOPA aviation regulation, and we could be laying the oo much red tape… excessive this magazine earlier this year – and it foundation for a system Tbureaucracy bearing down on a brought forth the greatest response of any that can revitalise the Working for struggling industry… taxation driving flight such exercise, three times as many as for industry without affecting training abroad… over-prescriptive and any other issue. Some 270 substantive safety. As always, the YOU impractical regulation… any reader of points have been identified as requiring devil is in the detail, but General Aviation will recognise these attention. Now we have reached the next we’re grabbing this phrases as being the mantra of AOPA in stage – where and how these issues are to excellent initiative with recent decades.