April issue of GA Magazine is out

We now provide the  GA Magazine for quick online viewing or as a one-click download so you can read it offline or stick it onto your ipad.   Read the April 2013 Issue in our online viewer  or  download the magazine as a single PDF   This month you can try an alternative flip-page viewer. It is running in demo mode since we are currently trying it out for possible future use. We believe it works quite nicely also on your ipad. Please let us know if you have problems with this edition. For older editions of GA Magazine please visit the archive

Presentations from IAOPA Regional Meeting in Malta

By clicking on the folder below you will find presentations from the latest IAOPA Regional Meeting which took place in Malta, March 23'th. Link to presentations

ICB Annual Report 2012

IAOPA advises EASA through the Industry Consultation Body (ICB). In this report you will find the major issues addressed in 2012. Download the ICB Annual Report 2012

Memorial Flight Rally Hans Gutmann

Join the long range FAI-GAC event from 10 to 18 August 2013 Download details as pdf

IAOPA Response to EASA OPS NCO & NCC

Click below to find the full set of comments to the EASA consultation on OPS regulation for non-commercial operations (Part NCO and NCC). In the November Enews you will find a summary of the main issues. Click here to see the IAOPA Europe response to EASA Part NCO & NCC

EU Parliament adopts GA friendly resolution The European Parliament has given general aviation its biggest boost in modern times with the adoption of a resolution which guides the EC and member states to adopt a raft of principles which would preserve, foster and promote GA across Europe. Resolution 2008/2134(INI) sets out the importance of keeping legislation in proportion, recognising the differences between CAT and GA in setting fees and charges, ensuring that GA has access to airports and airspace and accepting that GA has a vital role to play in Europe's transport infrastructure. The resolution, adopted by a huge margin - 524 votes in favour, 74 against and six abstentions - now forms the basis of the European Commission's approach to general aviation. The Commission is in turn the boss of EASA, which will find it very difficult to ignore the new landscape for GA. In addition, national AOPAs can now use it in negotiations with their own CAAs to ensure that GA is treated fairly. The full document can be seen by clicking on this link. It includes 35 clauses, each of which represents a major breakthrough for GA, addressing nearly every major issue impacting on general aviation today; access to airfields and airspace, proportionality in regulation and charges and appropriate technology requirements. It calls on the EC to recognise the important role that GA plays in the training of professional pilots. The resolution had its genesis in a meeting four years ago between European Aviation Commissioner Daniel Calleja di Crespo and a three-man IAOPA delegation at which the need for action on European legislation affecting GA was discussed. MEPs like Timothy Kirkhope from the UK and Arunas Degutis from Lithuania, both pilots, have been active in canvassing support. IAOPA is having the document translated into every European language and distributed to authorities across the continent.