Welcome In Madrid

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Welcome In Madrid

• I would like first to express my gratitude to
  Yago, on behalf of all of us, for the great job
  he did to invite us to Madrid in the best
  possible conditions.
  

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Welcome In Madrid

• I would also like to personnaly thanks all of you
  for your participation in these two days of work,
  which one more time will be useful to all our
  pilots.

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Welcome In Madrid

• All of them, in our respective countries, want
  that we defend their interests, particularly
  against the growing technocracy, no matter it is
  european or national, and that we make proposals
  or that we invent solutions for a regulation
  better adapted to our Microlight activities.
  

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Significant achievements

• Most of initial goals achieved
• Prag 1 resolution achieved
• Actually, and particularly as far as Microlights
  are concerned, my opinion is that we achieved
  most of the initial goals we decided when EMF was
  created and during the General Assembly in Prag
•  That the
  European Microlight Federation is committed to
  defending the regulatory status quo for
  microlights outside EASA of all its members, with
  the aim of prenenting the erosion of any and
  alltheir existing rights and privileges .
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• We know now that we were right.

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Annex II

• Microlights remain in Annex II
• 472,5 kg with BRS is in Annex II
• In fact, by staying outside of EASA, we are
  escaping the  Part 21 for initial airworthiness,
  all Part M for continuing airworthiness  and we
  obtained a Maximum Take Off Mass of 472.5 kg with
  a balistic recovery parachute.

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Annex II

• Microlights remain in Annex II
• 472,5 kg with BRS is in Annex II
• In fact, what we are avoiding is being part of a
  relatively complex EASA system which initialy
  created lots of hopes but nowadays proves to be
  quite desapointing compared with what we could
  have hoped as a matter of simplification and
  adaptation to our light aviation.

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Annex II

• Microlights remain in Annex II
• 472,5 kg with BRS is in Annex II
• We avoided having been  phagocited  and loosing
  our identity and also what is in most of our
  countries quite well adapted Microlight
  regulations.

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Annex II

• Microlights remain in Annex II
• 472,5 kg with BRS is in Annex II
• We achieved this result due to a lot of work,
  determination, presence and actions towards EAS,
  EASA, the Council of Europe, the European
  Commission, the European Parliament and our
  national Civil Aviation Authorities.

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For The FUTURE

• a better position in case EU wants ML in EASA
• In case of the EASA or the European Commision
  would like, in a few years from now, to include
  Microlight into EASA, it will be easier to
  express our ideas and defend our interests,
  rather than being melted in all the measures
  taken to regulate the activity ofaircraft, which
  may be light, but are for sure heavier than our
  Microlights.

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Prag 2 resolution

• Our views were not taken into account by MDM.032.
• Jan will make a full report about MDM.032.
• About the second  Prag Resolution ,
•  that the European Microlight Federation forms
  a Project Group, to include members from a wide
  range of views, to prepare a proposal for EASA
  relating to the aviation activities of its
  members that might be better suited to a new
  category ,

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Prag 2 resolution

• Our views were not taken into account by MDM.032.
• Jan will make a full report about MDM.032.
• About the second  Prag Resolution ,
• We have to admit that our views were not so
  succesfull in the MDM.032, despite every
  proposals, repeted actions and the efforts of our
  representants, especially Jan, but he will tell
  you more about that during this week-end.

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OPOSITIONS

• Not only EASA is responsible for lack of
  modernism.
• Some members of MDM.032 are too conservative.
• But I really think that EASA is not solely
  responsible for my being disapointed of what
  seems to be a huge and complicated machinery.

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OPOSITIONS

• Not only EASA is responsible for lack of
  modernism.
• Some members of MDM.032 are too conservative.
• I had a very, very close look to all the work
  carried out by this working group and all the
  sub-commitees.

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OPOSITIONS

• Not only EASA is responsible for lack of
  modernism.
• Some members of MDM.032 are too conservative.
• Some members of MDM.032, representing other
  aeronautical activities were on purpose very
  conservative and refused to consider the
  regulation from a new point of view and start
  from a blank sheet, as initialy intended.

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ELA / LAPL

• ELA and LAPL help protecting Microlight.
• Annex II is secured for a few years.
• As far as ELA1, ELA 2 and LAPL are concerned, I
  am really pleased about the fact that we
  contributed to protect, at least for the few
  years to come, the Microlights within the Annex
  2.

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PRIORITIES

• ML recognition at national level.
• Coordinate our action to spread our view at
  European level.
• As I previously said, our priorities now should
  first be to drive our Civilian Aviation
  Authorities, through a coordinated and common
  effort, into a recognition of Microlights and
  microlights pilot licenses on the basis of Annex
  II, and then to coordinate our actions and
  lobbying with the other organizations, both
  national or european (including EAS) to spread
  our point of view and made them accepted,
  particularly to Eurocontrol, EASA and the
  european institutions (Council, Commission and
  Parliament).

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PRIORITIES

• ML recognition at national level.
• Coordinate our action to spread our view at
  European level.
• In one word, we have to imagine and suggest
  solutions to all our common problems, like for
  instance the insurance problem.

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PRIORITIES

• ML recognition at national level.
• Coordinate our action to spread our view at
  European level.
• We will also have to be prepared and available if
  a european Microlight regulation under EASA comes
  on the table in a few years.

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CANDIDATE

• I request your official support to become a
   full member  at  EAS Board 
• We must have a vote !
• In order to
• be informed
• Press on the decisions

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OPTIMISM

• 450kg ML is developping.
• Optimism is now realistic
• I will conclude by stating my optimism for the
  future in Europe of the Microlights of 450kg
  Maximum Take Off Weight. The best evidence is the
  good condition of the Microlight movement in most
  of our countries, and its interesting rate of
  yearly grow, still higher than 10 in France for
  2007.

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OPTIMISM

• 450kg ML is developping.
• Optimism is now realistic
• After I carefully read the last bulletin of the
  DULV, I noted that our friend Jo in his editorial
  is satisfied of the increase of the number of
  their members .

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CONCLUSION

• EMF can look to the future with hope
• EMF is widely recognized
• All that is for EMF a great hope and the evidence
  that its actions can lead to success, for the
  interest of the pilots we are representing. When
  I look to the great difficulties for the
  traditional light aviation to make its newly
  founded european association living, I can only
  be, along with you, satisfied of the way the EMF
  is running, well known and recognized by european
  assocications and institutions.

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