| Open Consultations | Date Closes |
|---|---|
| Airspace change: a decision-making process for PPR (planned and permanent redistribution of air traffic) proposals | 7 July 2019 |
| See All Open Consultations | |
| Closed Consultations | Date Closed |
|---|---|
| Charge proposal for the UK Drone Registration Scheme | 7 June 2019 |
| Proposed changes to VMC minima in class D airspace | 31 May 2019 |
| Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel: Training & Competence | 31 May 2019 |
| Call for evidence: Electronic Conspicuity Solutions | 25 May 2019 |
| Economic regulation of capacity expansion at Heathrow: policy update and consultation | 24 May 2019 |
| See All Closed Consultations | |
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
For comments from industry on the following main proposals:
This document includes the CAA responses to the main concerns expressed by the respondents to the 2019/20 Charges Consultation: CAA Response Document CAP1755
We are grateful for those submissions received and after CAA Board discussion, we propose to implement all proposals made without further amendment.
CAP670 Edition 3 Proposed Amendment 1/2019 was issued for consultation on 5 November 2018 and closed on 31 January 2019.
The CAA received 74 comments from 8 stakeholders. We accepted 54 of these comments (73%) and partially accepted a further 7 comments (9%) This document provides a response to the comments provided.
The full revised CAP670 document, that forms Amendment 1/2019 and takes account of comments received has been published on our website: CAP670
The consultation was concerned with a proposed new publication entitled CAP 1724 Flying Display Standards Document. This new CAP is to be available alongside CAP 403: Flying Displays and Special Events: Safety and Administrative Requirements to ensure that the process of display pilot evaluation is standardised as far as is practicable. This proposed CAP1724 provides a single point of access to guidance for Display Pilots and Display Authorisation Evaluators (DAEs) in areas such as preparation, the conduct of the display and standardisation and evaluations. It contains regulatory guidance material to enable Display Pilots and DAEs to perform their tasks, discharge their responsibilities and maintain compliance with applicable aviation law.
It is vital that this new CAP reflects the latest thinking on flying display standards to allow the display industry to prosper whilst maintaining public safety at all times. Feedback from the regulated community is crucial in supporting this.
Those familiar with CAP403 will have noticed that much of our proposed material for CAP 1724 was in Edition 15 of CAP 403. This is because we took the view that the Display specific material was sufficiently distinct from the legal, safety and administrative requirements of those organising flying displays themselves to warrant its own publication. Therefore, by splitting the guidance across two publications, each audience is better able to absorb the shorter, more targeted, and above all more focused document.
We compiled a draft of CAP 1724 and consulted on it over five working weeks from 17 December 2018 through to 18 January 2019. This consultation was parallel to the CAP 403 consultation that ran until 11 January.
We received a total of 411 different comments to the draft CAP 1724 from 14 respondents. All respondents were from the Display community including Display Pilots and DAEs. Two responses were formal submissions from representative bodies or associations.
The majority (64%) of the comments advocated changes that were textual in nature, suggesting streamlined wording or highlighting minor drafting points. Many of these comments were duplicated between respondents.
There were also another 41 comments (10%) that did not advocate any change, with most expressing support for the approach we took. For example, our decision to split the content into respective display standards and flying display organisation documents was largely supported by the respondents.
The remaining 41% of the comments suggested more substantive amendments that required a judgment on whether they implicated changes of policy.
We accepted 197 of the all the comments suggesting some sort of change (51%), of which 95% resulted in an amendment to the proposed text.
We accepted 41% of the 263 textual comments received. Most of these comprised rewording content for clarification, and we have tried to take a balanced view on what would be helpful. Several respondents suggested clarifying definitions, and where possible we tried to accept these, however some suggestions would have meant revising CAA standard definitions which involves further work and may be considered in due course.
Of the 127 substantive comments, we implemented 63%. These comprised of 55 comments directly accepted into the document, 17 that were thought to be similar to a change already suggested either by another respondent or in the context of something else and another 8 were noted for consideration in either another Edition of this CAP or another document.
Regarding the changes we elected not to implement, some respondents requested further explanation that we deemed was either explained adequately elsewhere or was not necessary. Some changes would have impacted not just in this document but other material even outside the CAA. Finally, some suggested alterations would require substantial policy review including in some cases amendment to the Air Navigation Order (ANO), both of which are beyond the scope of this consultation, but we welcome further inputs to policy and the ANO, as and when these are released for consultation.
We have produced a final version of CAP 1724 Edition 1, which was published on 22 February 2019.