The RAeS General Aviation Group (GAG) reached a significant milestone at its conference in November. After almost ten years of lobbying, the Group heard the CAA announce the opening of a public consultation on more proportional regulations for the flight testing of proof-of-concept experimental aircraft. As argued in a 2006 Specialist Paper, the GAG believed the current low levels of design and production activity of light aircraft have largely been brought about by an unnecessarily burdensome set of regulations which have effectively raised the barriers to entry too high for any enterprise that does not already hold full Design and Production Organisation Approvals (DOA/POA). It believes that this has meant that many potential innovators have been prevented from trying to enter the field.
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