24th World Assembly
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Resolutions Summary
From 10 to 13 June 2008 in Athens, Greece, at its 24th World Assembly, 52 delegates from 26 worldwide AOPA affiliates deliberated a number of issues affecting general aviation and issued the following nine resolutions which will be used to guide international general aviation interests in the future:
IAOPA, at its 24th World Assembly in Athens, Greece, resolves:
to urge ICAO, State and military regulatory authorities responsible for classifying airspace to:
- classify airspace at the lowest possible level commensurate with the type of operations conducted
- involve stakeholders and use their input when developing airspace classification policies, standards and locations
- coordinate airspace classification policy with nearby States and regional groups
- design airspace using risk assessment and cost benefit analysis techniques.
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to urge the appropriate regulatory authorities to require air navigation service providers and airport operators to:
- fully disclose the financial components of proposed projects or added charges.
- prepare and publish a segmented cost-benefit analysis for each project/charging scheme. The segmentation is required to evaluate the effect and efficacy of charges/fees on each segment of the user community.
- provide a formal and effective means of redress for disputed charges/fees should be available and clearly spelled out in any proposal.
- charge users only for services actually required and received.
- consult all user groups regarding changes to existing charges.
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to support the efforts of AOPA-Philippines in urging the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to take into consideration current and past World Assembly resolutions as may be applicable to the adoption of regulations to govern general aviation.
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to urge international and national authorities to implement regulations regarding aircraft in distress that permit affordable and practical alternatives to Emergency Locator Transmitters for general aviation, including devices and/or monitoring systems that do not have to survive a crash in order to provide a reasonable alerting and locating function, and
to permit aircraft owners to select an alerting and locating option that is appropriate for their type and area of operations.
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that the State regulatory authorities, including European Commission, should encourage the collection and publication of meaningful data so that in the future proportionality decisions can be reached more readily.
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- to express deep satisfaction with the positive developments in the field of General Aviation in Russia.
- to offer cooperation and support from IAOPA during the rule-making process in Russia.
- to stress that public investment into airport infrastructure should be accompanied by specific assurances of equal access for all users to the airport infrastructure.
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- ensure general aviation aircraft are parked in non-security restricted areas on aerodromes.
- provide access to general aviation aircraft through non-security sensitive perimeter access points.
- abolish mandatory handling requirements for general aviation aircraft.
- if mandatory handling is required, the cost of such handling should not be passed on to the general aviation operator.
- absorb or otherwise fund the cost of handling charges if mandatory handling cannot be eliminated.
