CAA: Updated Cost Sharing Guidance The CAA have updated their cost sharing guidance for Pilots at Passengers. View the guidance here.

Acceptance of training at a registered training facility after 8 April 2019 All pilots and student pilots are reminded that since 8 April 2019 Registered Training Facilities (RTFs) cease to be valid entity for training. All NEW and FURTHER pilot training towards any EASA licence and associated ratings* training courses,…

Enabling ADS-B OUT for General Aviation gathers pace Efforts to help private pilots enhance their situational awareness continue to progress following analysis of the CAA’s simultaneous surveillance trial and the release of new EASA standard modification procedures. Further information can be found here. The trial took place last year to…

Airspace infringements: March 2019 figures Airspace infringement data for March 2019 has been published here. Rob Gratton, CAA lead for airspace infringements, stated that the statistics show an unacceptable and continued rise in airspace infringements. A great many pilots are still not using moving map technology or failing to use…

Proposed changes to VMC minima in class D airspace Since 2014 the UK has exempted any aircraft being flown within UK class D airspace at or below 3,000 feet above mean sea level from SERA.5001 (VMC visibility and distance from cloud minima). This exemption applies when the aircraft is flying…

Standardised European Rules of the Air - VMC Visibility and Distance from Cloud Minima within Class D Airspace The CAA have published ORS4 No 1302 which details General Exemption (E 4869) from the requirements of SERA.5001 (Visibility and Distance from Cloud Minima) when flying within the UK at or below…

Summer 2019 English Channel airspace restrictions This summer (2 May to 30 August 2019) a number of airspace restrictions and a temporary danger area will be put in place over the English Channel to accommodate a large Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) conducting atmospheric research. The Skeldar V-200 RPA will be…

Squawk and LARS cards now available Frequency Monitoring Code and Lower Airspace Radar Service cards are now available from the Airspace & Safety Initiative website: airspacesafety.com/updates

  Industry collaboration on avionics paves the way for GAINS navigation demonstration flights The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together…

EASA CS-STAN Issue 3 Standard Changes and Standard Repairs EASA have published CS-STAN Issue 3 which includes Standard Change CS-SC005a: Installation of an ADS-B Out system combined with a Transponder System. Standard Change CS-SC 005a is for the installation of ADS-B OUT systems. This SC allows the installation of different configurations…