Civil Aviation Authority

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I'll just start off by saying that in this nation, and I think probably across the US and other nations as well recently, drones seems to be the go-to excuse for anything that's unidentified and cannot be explained in the sky.

And the British Ministry of Defence and the Civil Aviation Authority here have regularly gone to that excuse over the years.

Now, in terms of what happened at Lake and Heath and the airfields around it, back in November 2024, I've spoken to and seen a number of witnesses who have basically said, look, we work here, we frequent the area, we even live locally.

People like Liberty as well, who you'll hear from in a moment, and they say, These things were nothing like drones.

It's a MOR report.

Basically, we would call it a near miss with what they believed was a red light drone.

And the pilots spoke on a number of occasions to an inspector from the Civil Aviation Authority's proximity board.

Now, I've looked at a number of these reports over the years, and it is very, very rare for an inspector to contact a pilot over any incident that is actually reported for a so-called near miss or any other out of the ordinary occurrence.

They don't bother taking your ID.

For anyone who is in the Civil Aviation Authority, they do take your ID.

Sorry, Nicky, if you're listening from Campbelltown.

And there's this one other woman.

If you book a traditional bundled package holiday where you pay one single price to a tour operator for your flight and your hotel, you are legally protected.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority runs the ATOL scheme air travel organizers licensing.

If your package operator goes bankrupt while you are sitting on a beach and coast, the ATOL scheme steps in, pays for your hotel and flies you home.

Furthermore, the package travel regulations of 2018 mandate that the organizer is legally liable for the performance of the entire trip.

Every system has to meet airworthiness requirements.

In the United Kingdom, historic military aircraft are certificated under permit to fly issued by the Civil Aviation Authority.

The process involves the same kind of rigorous documentation and inspection you would expect for any certificated aircraft, accounting for the unique characteristics of vintage hardware.

The Merlin engine is worth spending a moment on because it is the heart of this airplane and really the heart of this entire class of aircraft.

ORR has announced that Paul Smith has been appointed as CEO following John Larkinson's retirement early this year.

He joins ORR from Fingleton, the strategic regulatory and competition advisory firm, which he joined in 2024 from the Civil Aviation Authority.

He was at the CAA for six years, where he was a board member, director of the Consumers and Markets Group, and joint interim CEO.

He led the economic regulation of major airports, the CAA's consumer protection team, and was part of the executive team responsible for aviation safety and security.

She said, in recent weeks, passengers and airlines have been let down too many times, and I'm determined to get to the bottom of why.

That's why I've tasked the Civil Aviation Authority with a thorough independent review, which asks what went wrong and also whether NATS is ready for the future, on investment, on its systems and on resilience.

The review sets the bar high and I expect answers and action as a result.

Passengers deserve an aviation system that works and this government will ensure that our national infrastructure is fit for the future so that people can get to where they need to be.

So the way it's situated is that you turn up to a drop zone.

You obviously have your license documentation, everything with the CAA, Civil Aviation Authority.

It's regulated, obviously, to try and keep you as safe as possible because obviously you're involving other people.

And with skydiving, as far as base jumping, yeah, there's nothing stopping sort of anyone just getting a hold of a base rig, as we call them, base parachute, and then just doing it on their own.

And in the UK itself, it's called the Part 66 license.

It's issued by the UK Civil Aviation Authority as a national regulatory authority in the country.

And it has different categories, like a B1 category, which covers the engines and the mechanical and airframe sides of it.

B2 category will cover avionics and computers and stuff like that.

I think Bose Aerospace in the UK, it's a UK arm of an overall bigger umbrella company called Theme Aero.

That's an American maintenance provider.

So we are an independent line maintenance organization approved by both the UK Civil Aviation Authority and the European Aviation Agency.

With stations at the airports across the UK and Ireland.