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Chief Executive UK CAA

Andrew Haines

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Agenda

• Where business aviation fits in the regulatory world

• Particularly in respect of Part NCC

• And what opportunities we have to read across the changes we’re making to how we regulate recreational aviation

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Where does business aviation fit?

Business aviation could be split many ways: Air taxi Company aircraft Full AOC…

And that makes it difficult to make safety and regulatory decisions – we want simple uniform regulation – but difficult for such a wide

ranging area

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Part NCC

Comes into effect in August 2016

Applies to all non commercial operations with complex aircraft undertaken by an operator established or residing in the EC

But: What is a business flight? When are you an operator? When is a flight commercial or not? – even if it’s the same aircraft

being used it can change on a flight by flight basis If the crew are directly employed by the owner of the aircraft does

that make a difference?

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Part NCC – initial thoughts

Please don’t take this as our final word but….

It may be that for smaller air taxi outfits a full AOC is too high a bar

But a biz jet operator offering air

taxi flights might well be worthy

of a full AOC

Value your input on transition

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Changes to recreational GA

New approach based around acknowledgement and acceptance of risk by those taking part in the activity

But an absolute aim of still protecting non-participant third parties

We’ve put in place a set of simple, top level principles that we intend to apply to recreational GA:

• Only regulate directly when necessary and do so proportionately

• Deregulate where we can • Delegate where appropriate• Do not gold-plate, and quickly and efficiently remove gold-

plating that already exists• Help create a vibrant and dynamic GA sector in the UK.

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Policy framework

New GA policy framework which seeks to be a robust, evidence based process to evaluate policy decisions. 

framework is a series of questions that any proposal is run through to ensure that we are consistent in how we make decisions

If you think a similar framework would add benefit in your area of GA we could investigate whether something similar could be introduced to cover business aviation

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Business aviation regulation

Where uninformed third parties are involved then we absolutely must protect them – e.g. fare paying passengers

  business aviation uses larger aircraft that have more impact on the

overflown

  But there are examples of change that has worked well with

recreational aviation that we can absolutely look at for the business market.

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CASE and self accreditation

Could work with CASE in the way we devolve tasks to recreational organisations like the LAA

CASE now has 40 companies signed up from across business aviation so has considerable influence

Example could be to let CASE lead on ground handling audits and then look at other areas of devolution

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Government and GA

Red Tape challenge has alerted Government to GA in all forms

New Government GA policy has wins for business aviation as well

Opportunity to strike while the iron is hot

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Europe

EASA moving to more proportionate and risk-based regulation

But need encouragement to take this beyond recreational GA

We can seek joint opportunities to achieve this

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CAA upgrades

Significant efficiencies and better systems

Will involve changes to our people

But will absolutely have the right people in the right place

We will keep our ability to influence

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Airspace

Critical resource that needs modernisation

But seeing more and more interest from the overflown

Those seeking change must engage with all stakeholders

Hear others views

And be prepared to compromise where you can

Or we face stagnation

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Questions