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Open Consultations

  • Extended Diversion Time Operations (EDTO)

    The CAA is proposing to amend provisions of Assimilated Regulation (EU) No. 965/2012 (the UK Air Ops Regulation) to introduce Extended Diversion Time Operations (EDTO) requirements. These amendments are intended to ensure alignment with ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs)...

    Closes 21 May 2025

  • Orbex launch operator Assessment of Environmental Effects

    To carry out spaceflight activity in the UK spaceport and launch operators must be licensed by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. As part of their licence application, spaceport and launch operators are required to submit an Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE). The purpose of the...

    Closes 22 May 2025

  • Request for feedback on the proposed definition of Complex Motor-Powered Aircraft

    In line with the UK CAA priorities regarding Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), and the CAA has concluded that regulations will need to be amended to enable the safe integration of AAM operations in the UK within the next 2-5 years. The term Complex Motor-Powered Aircraft (known as CMPA)...

    Closes 23 May 2025

  • Call for Insights - AI in Aerospace

    Through this survey, we aim to gather information on the current situation and plans for developing and deploying AI systems across aerospace. We aim to gather information on AI use cases being explored across all areas of the sector. We seek to understand: • What AI systems is the...

    Closes 23 May 2025

  • Airspace Modernisation: Ground Infrastructure Survey

    The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is seeking industry input to help shape the future of ground-based airspace surveillance and communication infrastructure that supports unmanned aircraft Beyond Visual Line of Sight Operations (BVLOS) operations and airspace modernisation. As part of this...

    Closes 12 June 2025

  • Consultation on changes to UK Regulations recognising physical or electronic format personnel licences and medical certificates

    The Civil Aviation Authority is proposing amendments to the Air Navigation Order 2016 and Implementing Rules subject to UK Regulation 2018/1139, to adopt the amendments introduced to the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 1, Chapter 5. The amendments enable issue of personnel licences...

    Closes 22 June 2025

Closed Consultations

We Asked, You Said, We Did

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We asked

It is vital that CAP 1724 Flying Display Pilot Authorisation and Evaluation: Requirements and Guidance remains up-to-date and relevant, and that the CAA’s guidance material in these areas remains proportionate, clear and unambiguous.

We asked for feedback from the regulated community on proposed amendments to CAP 1724 ahead of the 2025 display season. 

We compiled a draft of CAP 1724 Edition 7 and consulted on it over four working weeks from 16 January 2025 to 12 February 2025. 

You said

We received a total of 48 unique comments to the draft CAP 1724 from 15 respondents.  

Of all the comments, 27 clearly conveyed some sort of change and 21 were either unclear / not specific or suggested no changes, many being purely comments.  21% of all the comments supported the proposed amendments.

Of the 27 conveying a change, 17 were textual in nature, suggesting revised wording or highlighting minor drafting / clarification points, several being duplicated between respondents.  The other 10 comments were more substantive, calling for some sort of change of the underlying policy. 

We did

We accepted 4 of the 27 comments suggesting some sort of change (15%).  3 of these comprised of rewording content or the addition of further information for additional clarification, we have tried to take a balanced view on what would be helpful.  The other comment concerned a minor policy change.

Of the remaining 23, 8 concerned points that were already covered elsewhere (either in this CAP or CAP403), 7 concerned issues that are beyond the scope of this CAP, 1 suggested a change that had already been made, 2 were unclear / not specific and 5 were aimed at sensitive text that we are unable to change.

Regarding the 10 more substantive comments we received, we implemented 1. Of those we elected not to implement, some were beyond the scope of CAP 1724, others were covered adequately either in this document or elsewhere, some concerned suggestions for unacceptable changes to policy and it was considered that the remaining might have further unintended consequences.

We have produced a final version of CAP 1724 Edition 7 which was published on 10 March 2025. 

We asked

For comments on the Notification of Intention to Surrender the Type Certificate for the HS 748 (EASA.A.397 Issue 2). Notification Number UK.CN.00001 provided the full details.

Note that CAA is acting in accordance with ICAO Annex 8, Chapter 1, Section 1.6 (Thirteenth Edition, July 2022) in notifying ICAO Contracting States and States of Registry.

You said

We received no comments during the consultation.

We did

We have informed the Type Certificate holder that the consultation period has ended with no comments. The CAA will provide a further notification advising the date on which the Type Certificate is to be revoked.

We asked

For comments on the proposal that the CAA introduces a deviation concerned with flight crew alerting on a large transport aeroplane.


The UK CAA is consulting on a Deviation that is applicable to CS-25 Large Aeroplanes. This Deviation provides the compensating factors to reach an acceptable level of mitigation to allow issuance of the type certificate with the non-compliance to CS 25.1322.

This is based the use of an approach to the cockpit philosophy on flight crew alerts which has been approved and is common to previous types certified by the same manufacturer.


The Consultation Paper Deviation UK.DEV.F.0001 Issue 1 provides the full detail of the identified issue, and the associated Deviation.

You said

We received 2 responses.
The first response primarily related to the number of memory actions required, and pilot training when multiple ratings are held.


The second response proposed a number of wording changes aimed at making the text more specific to flight crew alerts, and proposes eliminating some text perceived by the commenter to be redundant. In addition, the commenter considers that CS 25.1322(c)(2) has not been addressed and should be addressed.

We did

We acknowledge the responses and thank the responders for their suggestion.
For response 1, the comment is not incorporated. While the comments are relevant, their incorporation would is not considered to address the intent of the deviation and mitigations presented to the non-compliance.


For response 2, the comment is not incorporated. The deviation scope is considered to be clearly centred around Flight Crew Alerting, and the current text is considered to be clear within this context.

Further, the CAA consider that the text proposed for deletion by the commenter is not redundant, but is necessary and focussed on the requirements addressed by the deviation. CS 25.1322(c)(2) is addressed in Appendix A Table 4.