General Aviation

Here's a great guest blog on AV Web by Jason Barker from the Seaplanes magazine on our GA Roadmap event at AERO:
https://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/Guest-Blog-Europe-Leads-in-Simplify…

Here are a few excerpts: "The big surprise was attending the news conference EASA put on and paying close attention to just how significantly this agency has changed itself over the last five to six years ....... EASA's presence and effort appeared personable and authentic and it was definitely clear that the agency is listening to manufacturers, associations, pilot groups and proposals from outside and within the European aviation universe ...... But even though the U.S. remains the world aviation mecca, it’s the Europeans who are showing us how a regulatory agency can transform itself and actually be a catalyst to market growth instead of a hindrance. Who would have ever thought this would happen? "

EASA team at AERO showed great commitment and presence at the event! Stakeholder feedback has been very positive - on our involvement, hard work and support regarding the GA Roadmap achievements as well as right there, during AERO, at our stand and during our stakeholder events.

Impressions collected after the GA Roadmap Press & Stakeholder lunchtime event on Thursday 19 April: Enlightening, confident, open in a mutual manner, encouraging, and motivating to take on the challenges and opportunities of the future in a positive and curious spirit. It clearly showed that safety promotion as well as direct interaction with our stakeholders is needed in support of rules, even when they are simple and light!

Also at our stand we always had a lot of visitors asking questions to our experts. These informal discussions proved again that personal interaction with individuals is the best way of communicating!

Unfortunately the photo below does not show all members of our team - it was impossible to bring them all together, and there was always someone who was busy somewhere else! In fact, it was hard enough to get the present 'crew' on board for the minute of taking the picture as there were too many other things to do (and people around).

A big thank you to the whole team, and also to our national counterparts for their good support! You were all excellent!

A pro-active way of creating more dialogue!! Very good!