Dylan Smith <dylan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>Incidentally, Ronaldsway gives a pretty false picture of our weather,
I hope so
EGNS 271620Z 24013KT 5000 FEW002 BKN005 BKN012 14/14 Q1009 BECMG
SCT005=
:)
>it's subject to frequent fog that most of the rest of the island does
>not suffer from. They put the air****t in a pretty silly place, quite
>honestly, they should have used Jurby for the commercial air****t.
>Due to the geography, quite often there's four different weather
>types simultaneously at any one time.
>
>> What is an MHK?
>
>Member of the House of Keys (member of parliament).
>
>As for 'EU pass****t holders', the Isle of Man is not part of the EU.
>Unless these EU regulations are going to affect EU citizens perhaps
>living in the United States or other non EU state, I don't see how it's
>going to affect Manx based pilots.
Do you have a IOM pass****t in that case? Doesn't this mean that you
have to queue up in the non-EU pass****t queue everywhere you travel in
Europe, and need visas for so many countries?
Back to that EASA proposal, it isn't going to affect loads of pilots,
but the devil will be in the detail.
One should draw attention to it
http://www.easa.europa.eu/ws_prod/r/doc/NPA/NPA%202008-17b.pdf
(relevant pages are 159-161 of the above PDF)
in America, because the French "own" EASA, Airbus, and would like to
sell Airbuses in the USA :) The proposal is basically a finger-up
salute to the FAA and America.
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