Why ALWAYS bash EASA?
They make themselves so easy to bash. From my perspective, everything EASA has done has made flying harder, more expensive, and less safe. We used to have a system with gliders (administered by the BGA) that operated well and safely for decades, then EASA came along and destroyed all of that and made gliding needlessly more expensive while doing absolutely nothing to make it safer. EASA goes on about making regulations more proportionate then does the opposite in a big way, for example the new rules around flight instruction (and all they have to do is look across the Atlantic to see a system that works very well with far lower costs and arguably better safety). That’s called “lying”. Things like also increasing the cloud clearances under SERA vastly reducing the opportunities to fly if you own a VFR aircraft in a country where the weather is usually not perfect. Also what they have done with N-reg and foreign licensed pilots. The CAA had a good sense system for validating licenses for day VFR (in other words no paperwork and no costs) and EASA has just gone and destroyed this.
I’ve yet to see EASA improve anything for light GA flying. They’ve made it less affordable and less available. Someone needs to call them out on it in light of their repeated promise to reduce regulatory burden because from where I’m sitting, it’s been a lie.
it’s been a lie.
I have to agree.
At this exact point in time, I can think of just one thing which EASA has delivered which improved on the previous position: the grandfathering of mod approvals from all over the EU. That was done in 2003!
We will now have the CB IR and the EIR, which should make private IFR a bit more accessible, but at what cost? Shafting the N-reg community first, and then making it easier for the very small % of aircraft owners who can afford an IFR capable plane but cannot for some reason do the FAA to EASA IR 15hr conversion, to get a European IR.
Time will tell, but it’s going to be a few more years.
panel mount GPSs don’t seem to record anything
The 2012 C172SP with G1000 record lots of stuff on one of the SD cards, at least position, altitude, QNH set, frequencies, engine data (EGT, CHT, and so on) and more, once a second, in a CVS file
OTOH the GTN650 doesn’t seem to log anything, and I’ve seen no menu entry to enable something like this.
L3 make a recorder intended for GA – the LDR.
I can’t find any pricing but it is sure to be a good few k.
