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In November we trust

Publicerad 2010-08-11 15:02:00 i Allmänt, Propulärkultur,

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Attention N-registrations!


FAA requires registration renewals


Owners of all N-registered aircraft in Europe must re-register their planes as part of an effort by the American FAA to clear the deadwood out of the system and make life more difficult for shady operators around the world. The FAA has 370,000 aircraft on its registry but believes up to 100,000 of them may be defunct for various reasons. All those who do not re-register will be cancelled.

Existing regulations require owners to report the sale, scrapping or destruction of an aircraft, or a change of address, but many owners have not complied with those requirements, according to the FAA. In future, aircraft will have to be re-registered every three years. Cost is variously pitched somewhere between $5 and $130 – AOPA in the US is concerned that this fee should not rise to become a revenue source.



The FAA has laid down a specific schedule for re-registration, and private owners should check with their Trusts to ensure they get their paperwork in on time. Re-registration can be accomplished online if there are no changes, but where data has changed they must be submitted by post. The process begins on November 1st and ends in December 2013.

Good trusts are already ahead of the game. Faith Al Egaily of Southern Aircraft Consultancy, the biggest N-reg trust in the UK, says: “The FAA are very keen to improve the accuracy of their records, partly in order to combat terrorism, money-laundering and drug smuggling. This is a laudable aim, although it’s unfortunate that it comes with fees and administrative costs.”

Source: IAOPA



Jag tror inte att det heller är omöjligt att amerikanska FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) även kommit under tryck från EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency)? Det är ju faktiskt så att det enskilt största landet vad det gäller registrerade flygplan inom general aviation (allmänflyg) i Europa är...USA! Låter som en paradox men har nu varit en känd - dock inte kanske så ofta uttalad - sanning sedan några år tillbaka.

För att hålla flygplanet på amerikanskt register måste det vara skrivet på en ägare som är medborgare i landet eller på en adress i USA. Flygplan som ägs och opereras av non US-citizens kan gå runt detta och köpa in sig i en trust, många gånger är dessa placerade i delstaten Delaware beroende på liberalare regler.

Två exempel är Aircraft Guaranty Holdings LLC (hemmahörande i Texas) och International Air Services, Inc (hemmahörande i UK). Läs mer om hur upplägget kan se ut på deras site'r och mer om för- och nackdelar här.



Även här i gamla Svedala blir detta fenomen allt mer noterbart. Jag uppskattar att det är opereras i runda längar mellan 20 och 30 flygplan och helikoptrar i landet på USA-register. Och trenden håller nog i sig, det kan bli fler. 

Till exempel kan man ju nämna att tre rätt nya November-registrerade Mooney Ovation. Jag gissar att dessa fall i första läget berodde på att kärrorna var försedda med glascockpit och EASA:s krav på en separat installerad DME för att hålla dem IFR-godkända, även om denna funktion finns i databurkarna. Sedan har många faktiskt märkt att det är rätt smidigt att flyga på November-register, det är helt enkelt bekvämt och allt som oftast billigare i jämförelse.  

Dessutom är det bra mycket lättare att vara en "smooth operator", man kan vara anonym i en högre utsträckning. Om man nu känner för det...


På den här sidan Atlanten har juridiken blivit viktigare än den tekniska aspekten inom luftfart. Det gäller inte minst i Sverige: Hur många jurister har man anställt på senare år på Luftfartsverket/Transportstyrelsen jämfört med teknisk personal? I USA är det juridiska systemet uppbyggt på eget ansvar, det genomsyrar även flygandet: "Fine, gör så eller så om du känner för't, men går det åt h-e så stämmer vi skjortan av dig", det är så det hela i princip fungerar.

I Sverige kan transportstyrelsens implementering av EASAs bestämmelser rätt ofta skjuta förbi målet. Ett talande exempel taget från IAOPA-Europe enews:

EASA’s first gift to general aviation, the Part M maintenance requirements, continue to cause chaos. Lars Hjelmberg of AOPA Sweden reports that aircraft owners are being required to produce documentation going back more than 20 years. “Any entry in the maintenance logbook must now be available with the original papers from the workshop – the invoice copy is not sufficient,” Lars says. “For my 1988 PA-28 I have had to present the original workshop papers from February 1989 showing how the heater in the engine compartment was installed, even if the log-book entry was 100% correct, reference was made to a Swedish STC, and the thing has worked perfectly for more than 20 years. I had to prove that the mechanic had used the correct parts and installed them correctly, regardless of the fact that the aircraft had had its airworthiness certificate renewed during all the intervening years by the CAA and that the aircraft been flight tested by CAA staff twice for airworthiness, with log book entries stamped by the CAA.”

Lars’s aircraft was held in maintenance for 45 days while all these boxes were ticked, but he is lucky because he has owned the aircraft from new and has kept all the papers. Those aircraft whose documents do not go back for decades are technically unairworthy. AOPA Sweden is questioning the legality of these requirements.

The Swedish CAA also now insists that all recommendations from type certificate holders must be treated as mandatory, introducing a whole new level of costly, bureaucratic and pointless work. For the PA-28, for instance, there is now a mandatory check of battery water every 30 days, lubrication of rubber door seals every 30 days, cleaning of fuel bowl every 30 days, change of engine oil every four months and much more, regardless of times flown.

Part M continues to be a costly and time-consuming distraction for the GA industry, and its imposition has provided zero safety benefit.

Att läsa, att tolka, att förstå - vad hände med det klimat för svensk luftfart som fanns på 80- och 90-talet? Delvis är förklaringen att den gått i pension. Men även med ett nytt regelverk hade man tidigare förstått vad som är applicerabart och vad som är inte-...

Som någon initierad/irriterad (välj det som passar) uttryckte det: "Transportstyrelsens kompetens är numera utbytt mot inkompetens, det är den nya förmågan som man satsar på." Fortsätter denna utveckling lär det också betyda att fler kommer stämma in i kören In November we trust...


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Postat av: Håkan Buffal-O.

Publicerad 2010-08-11 16:27:27

Tack för att du tar up ett mycket intresant och aktuellt ämne. Vi som sitter mitt i smeten vet inte riktigt hur vi skall bete oss ibland.

Mycket av den gamla kompetensen hos "Luftis" (Transportstyrelsen) har definitivt gått i pension.

Jag får känslan av att man förr rekryterade folk ur flygbranschen och utbildade dessa i de olika regelverken så att de tillämpades korrekt. Nu känns det som om man rekryterar jurister och ger dem en flygutbildning för att de skall få en förståelse för vad de håller på med.......



N-reggorna har nog kommit för att stanna om inte EASA sätter fler käppar i hjulen.

Postat av: Stellan

Publicerad 2010-08-11 17:32:24

Ytterligare ett strå till den svenska luftfartsstacken, grattis 100-åringen!

Postat av: SuperEchoChris

Publicerad 2010-08-12 05:57:31



Fördelen med såna här inlägg är att om jag händelsevis skulle få en släng av hemlängtan behöver jag bara klicka fram din blogg igen och läsa sånt här så går det snabbt över!! Känns rätt bra att veta att av de senaste dryga 5000 timmarna jag loggat har bara ungefär två och en halv timme varit SE reggat och resten med N i början! Luftis....uh... Transisarna i nuvarande form ska inte gynnas i onödan!!

Postat av: Anonym

Publicerad 2010-08-12 13:30:29

Tyvärr så verkar det lite som att någon med akademisk examen med typ 80 p air law går före en mek med xx antal års erfarenhet och xx antal typer i certet går före när man numera anställer, eller?



I rätt många fall - som t ex Hjelmbergs Warrior II - gäller det att man har "god känsla för feeling". Alltså, att vara airminded i grunden för att kunna hantera spörsmål som detta. Det är en egenskap som transportstyrelsens rekyterare kanske missat? Eller det kanske inte eftersöks?



Svenskt flyg fyller 100 år. Det är mycket motvind, både utom och inne i luftfartyget "Sverige" anno 2010.

Postat av: dykarn

Publicerad 2010-08-13 09:50:46

Bra ,mycket bra att du tar upp detta.

Man börjar förstå hur hundraåringar känner sig,det verkar som transportstyrelsen har sneglat på hur äldreomsorgen sköts i detta land plus hjälp från EASA ( Europé Against Small Aircraft). Vi är helt enkelt en onödig rest och skall helst försvinna snarast.

Postat av: F

Publicerad 2010-08-13 13:09:12

Att man alltid mer eller mindre känner sig ansatt av diverse myndigheter hör liksom till, spelar egentligen inte roll vad för sfär vi snackar om. Skillnaden är när det påtagligt märks att fall efter fall hanteras utan "flygkänsla". Till exempel tror jag att fallet med Mr Hjelmcos PA-28 hade saker o ting fångats upp "in house-LFV" för 15 år sedan. Åtminstone är det den känslan jag har...

Postat av: F

Publicerad 2010-10-06 11:50:24

Detta har precis gått ut mailledes:



A special message to all IAOPA-Europe members on EASA's plans for third-country licences following the weekend's Regional Meeting in Amsterdam

IAOPA presses the EC to delay EASA's N-register attack



EASA’s eleventh-hour attempt to bounce the industry into accepting disastrous regulations aimed at killing off the N-register in Europe have shocked the aviation world and led to frantic last-minute moves to stop the Agency bulldozing new rules through the European Commission.



When the Agency finally showed its hand on the N-register it was through proposals on Flight Crew Licensing which will make it impossible for European citizens to fly in Europe on American licences, render worthless the FAA Instrument Rating and blow the bottom out of the market in N-registered aircraft. If they are adopted, the plans will force thousands of pilots to undertake new training courses costing millions of euros and slide the already-depressed used aircraft market into the mire. The safety benefit will be zero.

After years of discussion, the details became clear just two weeks before the EC was due to make a final decision on EASA’s proposals. IAOPA is asking the Commission to set the issue aside to allow time for its impact to be properly assessed.



The plans fly in the face of every assurance given by EASA’s principals that while they wanted European pilots to fly on European registers, they would properly address the reasons why they did not. EASA’s Executive Director Patrick Goudou promised in 2005: “We will ensure there are no special advantages to being on the N-register.” He has not kept his side of the bargain. Few of the compelling reasons why European pilots are driven into the arms of the FAA have been addressed, and those that have been looked at have been skimmed over in a desultory and unsatisfactory way.

EASA’s claimed motivation for attacking the N-register is safety, but that is a smoke-screen for political chauvinism. Aviation is a trade battleground between Europe and America, and pilots and owners are caught between the trenches. There has never been any evidence, or even any credible claim, that the N-register is unsafe. With this move, EASA has gone far beyond its safety remit and stepped completely into the realms of political protectionism.



IAOPA-Europe met in Amsterdam at the weekend to plan a response. Delegates from 17 European countries debated emergency tactics, and Craig Spence, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for AOPA US, flew in from Washington. He left with a full understanding of the gravity and urgency of the matter.



AOPA UK’s Pam Campbell outlined the issue which, she said, had come as “something of a bombshell”. To fly an aircraft in Europe, no matter what the country of register, would require an EASA licence and if applicable an EASA Instrument Rating, if you were domiciled in Europe. A stop-gap validation on a non-European licence would be available from national aviation authorities, valid for one year. The pilot would have to apply to the authority of the nation in which he or she resided. There would be a test for the validation, and no repeat validation would be possible, although an extension would be granted for a maximum of one year if the pilot could prove that training to convert the licence or rating has been commenced.



The minimum requirements to convert a third country PPL would be to pass an examination in Air Law and Human Performance, a PPL Skills Test and a Class 2 medical. It would also be necessary to demonstrate English language proficiency, and to have a minimum of 100 hours. That would convert the licence to a PPL with an SEP rating. Higher qualifications would be granted subject to additional training at the discretion of the service provider. The holder of an FAA Instrument Rating would have to study for and sit seven theoretical knowledge exams, which are currently the greatest barrier to the IR for private pilots. EASA is tinkering with theoretical knowledge requirements but there will be few game-changing amendments. It is unclear whether there would be any credit for American training or hours flown.



Emmanuel Davidson of AOPA France said there were more than 10,000 European pilots holding FAA licences flying in Europe. “We have to bear in mind that if your American licence is made illegal and you have an N-registered plane, when you fly it on a European licence you will have to apply both European and FAA regulations, which would mean you can only fly in the country that has issued your licence. It will be illegal to fly, say, from France to Germany or England to Belgium. Those aircraft which have been modified to FAA STCs may not be able to go on the European register and will have to be sold, but to whom? A glut of aircraft will come onto the market, and the only place you’d be able to sell them would be America. There will be massive compensation claims against EASA and the EC.”



IAOPA Senior Vice President Martin Robinson said this had been sprung on the industry at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour, and that all assurances given by EASA and EC figures that the situation was not as dire as it seemed had proved valueless. “We are facing a firing squad which has its rifles cocked,” he said. “EASA has consulted on Part FCL, and in response to IAOPA’s specific comments on third country licences it responded with one word – ‘Noted.’ That is all. EASA sends its work as an opinion to the European Commission, which has a time frame in which to accept or reject, and the hearing for that is on the 13th and 14th October.”



IAOPA has already met with MEPs and European Commission figures and more meetings are scheduled with the aim of getting the Commission to allow more time to discuss the issue. “Our first objective is to get the EC wound up to ‘park’ the issue so the ramifications can be looked at,” Robinson said. “In the short time we have available, there is no other option. Then we have to work on how we modify the text to get a proper resolution.



“There is no guarantee that the EC will listen. They could say we’ve had our chance, but we can demonstrate that our comments simply haven’t been listened to. The regulatory impact of this will be enormous, and I believe they are poorly understood, even at EASA. I cannot believe they have done a proper Regulatory Impact Assessment on FCL. If they even begin to work out how many people would be driven out of aviation by this, EASA and the EC would recoil from it.”



There is little individual AOPA members can do at this late stage to influence events. Martin Robinson said: “If you feel strongly about this you can write to Mike Smethers, Chairman of the EASA Board of Management, at the CAA in Kingsway, with a copy to your local MEP. But time is so short that we can only take emergency measures at this stage."

IAOPA will keep members informed of progress as it happens.



Postat av: F

Publicerad 2010-12-15 10:46:23

Samtidigt är ju en städning av N-registret i full gång sedan november.



http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/regulatory/reregistration.html



http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2010/101210out_of_date_records_no_security_threat.html

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