This is wholly political, the UK has a Govenment is of a political stance that sees pointless rules imposed by Govenment as being an impediment to economic growth and personal freedom, for us aviators it helps that the chairman of the conservative party is a pilot and is no doubt putting pressure on the UK CAA.
On the other hand we have the European experiment that is intent on very big Govenment churning out rules that don’t help anyone except those who are employed to write rules.
You only have to look at the rules on STC’s in the UK you can use an STC from the USA or Canada with just a log book entry, the EASA paperwork trail for using one of these STC’s would be IRO £ 15 K.
Apply for a minor modification from the UK CAA and it can be quite wide in terms of scope, EASA charges THREE times as much and the modification has to be very narrow In scope.
EASA requires a major change of attitude, it should be the duty of EASA to make any SAFE Aviaton activity as easy as posable by helping those in aviation, It should not be in the business of over regulating as a form of job creation. EASA should remember they are our servants, we are not their’s and that of they continue to overstep the mark the political pressure from the UK will be to have those managing EASA removed from post.
