European Commission approach to safety of General Aviation

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European Commission approach to safety of General
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• Airspace Infringement Workshop

TREN F3, Air Safety Gernot Kessler 24 January
2008
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Content
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• Supranational level action in the past
• Benchmarking Demand for change
• Topic European commitment
• Application to Workshops matters
• Conclusions

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1. Supranational action in the past
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• GA not in focus of policy and legislatory action
• However, GA impacted in fields as
• Training and Licensing
• Operations
• Airworthiness
• and
• economics

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2. Benchmarking Demand for change
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• European GA highly evolved
• Margins for development
• Reports of areas of improvement
• proportionality of rules reflecting amount of
  complexity
• better respond to GA specific needs and
  limitations
• reduce economic burden

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3. Topic European commitment (1)
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• An agenda for Sustainable future in General
  and Business aviation adopted 11 Jan 2008
• for the first time, the overall GA sector was
  studied, quantified and challenges identified
• objective to integrate GA in to EU Air Transport
  Policy
• in a conscious way with full recognition of
  the specific GA parameter and needs
• refer to http//ec.europa.eu/transport/air_porta
  l/index_en.htm

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3. Topic European commitment (2)
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• Ongoing efforts
• ESSI / EGAST European GA Safety Team established
  in 2007
• Development of an aggregated GA database
• Concept of better Regulation for GA
• Related OPS and LIC endeavours in the rulemaking
  process
• Commitment to proportionality as safety tool

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4. Application to Workshops matters (1)
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• Infringement matter reflects typical element of
• challenge faced by GA safety
• Not one fits all prerequisites for procedures,
  communications, proficiency, training etc.
• Peculiar responsibility andreporting schemes
• How to reach the individualaddressee?

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4. Application to Workshops matters (2)
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• Developing mitigating solutions
• Safety paramount
• Focus on identified room for improvement instead
  of justification
• Peculiarities of GA need to be taken into account
  and respected by all players involved
• both development of rules andway of execution
  affected

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5. Conclusions
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• Workshop in line with ongoing GA efforts
• Workshop one element to ensure safe and
  prospering European GA
• Safety improvement will form marketing element
  of GA
• All players cooperate for improvement, from
  rules to actual operation
• All equally affected
• Appeal to share effort of risk mitigation!

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European Commission approach to safety of General
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