Welcome to the PFA webpage dealing with the CAA’s Light Aviation Airports Study Group (LAASG).
The Issue
As you may know, the CAA regulates all licensed airfields using procedures found in CAP168 but until now the larger airports have picked up the greater share of the cost for this.
The JRT Review has now shifted the balance so that smaller airfields pick up a substantially greater share, to the extent that some airfields could see cost increases of some 800%. It is quite unreasonable to regulate a small airfield in the same way that a major international airport and the JRT cost increases have now brought this to a head.
The Light Aviation Airports Study Group (LAASG) has been set up by the CAA to consider changes to the way these small airfields are regulated, particularly to re-cast or eliminate inappropriate regulatory requirements and anomalies. The PFA representative on the LAASG is Barry Tempest; if you have any thoughts on this subject that you would like raised at the study group or have any views that may be useful then please send them to him through the LAA office.
So far the group has met seven times and its report is scheduled to be complete by the end of 2005. Its work is described by the CAA as being part of the current regulatory review process. However, it almost certainly arose from a paper written by Barry on behalf of the PFA some two years ago advocating the use of un-licensed aerodromes for flying training for the NPPL (SSEA). That paper that was tabled to the CAA at the NPPL steering group some 21 months ago but there was no progress despite support from the BMAA and the BGA. It is good to see this moving forward now.
Information about the LAASG, its proceedings and supporting information may be found here.
The PFA point of contact for this is Barry Tempest
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