European Gliding Union Presentation to the Nordic Gliding Conference

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European Gliding UnionPresentation to the
Nordic Gliding Conference
15 September 2001
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The EGU members
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Peter Eriksen President
Jurgen Sagemühl Vice-President
Lemmy Tanner Vice-President
Roland Stuck Secretary General
Patrick Pauwels Treasurer
Jan-Eric Olsson T/O airworthiness
Matias Borgmeier T/O operations
F. van Haaff T/O airsp./radio
Lemmy Tanner T/O licensing
W. Scholze T/O environment
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EGU Work Program and policies

• Airspace
• Transponders
• Radios
• Operations
• Licensing
• Medical
• Airworthiness
• Environment

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The context
IGC/FAI
NAC/NGA
The glider pilot
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Licensing

• Most European countries have ICAO licenses
• UK has a ICAO-like license
• Many other countries have non-ICAO compliant
  licenses
• The EGU policy is that ICAO is a low level
  standard, that forms a fine basis
• The rights related to the license are different
  in each country
• Medical requirements are not included here

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Airspace

• A new airspace structure to replace the current 7
  classes is under way
• The situation is gradually worsening in European
  countries
• The EC Commissioner for Sports and Culture has
  been contacted by EAS, and has assured that she
  will raise our case
• Environmental factors may help us due to 0-growth
  requirements to airports

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Transponder and Radio

• 8.33 kHz is not an immediate threat
• The Mode-S transponder is !
• Eurocontrol do not understand us
• EAS do not support the powerless aviation in the
  mode-S question
• Please try to make agreements on the national
  level ASAP, to give us examples that can be used
  in the debate

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Medical

• Most European countries have ICAO Class-2
  requirements
• Very few countries have JAA requirements
• UK and many other countries have requirements
  less than ICAO
• There is no clear EGU policy on the area, however
  we are against the JAA medical
• ICAO may reduce Class-2 requirements