CAA CONSULTATION ON MODE S - DEADLINE 31ST MAY 2008
A Brief by the Light Aircraft Association
This section of the LAA website deals with the consultation on Mode S transponders. The object is to give you sufficient information to respond to the consultation and to guide you through the CAA documents which are substantial. It is based on input from members and covers most issues. We are grateful to the BGA airspace committee for their significant input. Please use the material to form your own response but do not copy sections wholesale as that will carry much less weight.
The consultation documents are here with links to the on-line response form. We do not recommend you use that as it restricts what you can say. We suggest you email your responses to modesconsultation@caa.co.uk or send them by post to the address on the CAA website. The deadline is 31 May – please don’t forget.
If you are considering fitting a Mode A or A/C transponder to a new build aircraft or an aircraft that is already registered see our guide here.
You can read the draft LAA response here. If you support the LAA response, please say so in your own response to the CAA and then you can keep your own input simpler if you wish. You can leave the technical stuff to us but please identify yourself with the LAA response.
You can download a skeleton reply form in MS word format with some headings already on to get you started.
Finally, if you want to print this out, here is a printer friendly version in pdf form.
Use the links below for information on:
What The LAA Thinks Of The Consultation
Why Mode S Transponders and Not A or A/C
Transition and Exemption Arrangements
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