Part M Light voted!

Dominique Roland
Dominique Roland • 1 March 2019
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The Part M Light was finally voted yesterday by the EASA Committee. The opinion was released by EASA in May 2016, and many difficulties delayed the adoption process. This post will be updated with the link to the final text as soon it is available.

The implementation of the Part M Light and related Part CAO should start later this year.

This new Part M Light is proposing significant alleviations to the conditions applicable to the maintenance of small aicraft, up to 2.7 T. It is one of the corner stones of the GA Roadmap project.

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Anonymous (not verified) • 5 years ago

This alleviation of a very bureaucratic, and complex maintenace rules (CAMO) will make general aviation in Europe alive again. Thank you.

Anonymous (not verified) • 4 years ago

When can we expect the publication of the new and voted part-M light in the official journal of the european union? 3 months has now passed.
Is the delay caused by translations?
kindly regards Keld

Jyrki Paajanen
Jyrki Paajanen • 4 years ago

It is indeed the translation from English to the other 23 official languages that takes most of the time. This is also quite a busy time for our language services. Current estimate for publication in the Official Journal is in the latter half of June.

Regards,

Jyrki

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Christian Chaix • 4 years ago

[~835] Thank you for your reply !
Under what responsibility are such translations defined ? I have one example in mind (NCO.IDE.A.175 c) where one translation introduces an unclear wording in French enabling a stricter interpretation than other languages would imply (checked with EN, ES, IT, DE versions).

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Jyrki Paajanen
Jyrki Paajanen • 4 years ago

Translations are done by (or under the control of) European Commissions translation services (DGT). If you find mistakes, you can inform the translation services for example through the general Europe Direct service (https://europa.eu/european-union/contact_en ) or even directly by e-mail (for address see: https://www.facebook.com/pg/translatingforeurope/about/ ). The DGT will then check the correctness of the translation and if necessary publish the correction. Please include a clear reasoning and e.g. comparison between the French and English versions to help their work. In aviation texts, the English version is usually the original.

Guillaume S
Guillaume S • 4 years ago

So basically from 2020, we will have to perform a "operational test of transponder" under MIP which in reality means a full pitot-static bench test.

So now we have an extra 100h / 1 year static bench test requirement instead of the 5 years periodicty we previously had under Part-M / national regulation.

I'm sorry Dominique, but the reality is that Part-M light brings (yet) more burden for general aviation.

Guillaume S
Guillaume S • 4 years ago

I wish EASA defined the "operational test" this way but the reality is that it didn't defined it at all.
What we have is a national CAA document listing two differents "static tests" as a mean of compliance with the EASA operational test.
Unfortunately, both tests require a static bench.
See the document attached (in french).

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