Won all microlights soon be coming under EASA, with the 450kg weight limit raised?
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has an ongoing consultation into “a concept for better regulation in General Aviation”, led by its MDM.032 group. An Advance Notice of Proposed Amendment (ANPA) was published in 2006, followed by a full NPA in 2008. In short, there are a range of possible outcomes to the EASA activity which may lead to an increase or decrease in regulation or indeed to no change at all. In the event that a higher weight limit were to be proposed, this would require a change to EU law and hence passage through the European Parliament. Overall, it is far from certain that any change will take place and if it does it will certainly take some considerable time to come to fruition. In the meantime, UK microlights remain well regulated by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and British Microlight Aircraft Association (BMAA), and customers buying a UK factory built microlight can be confident that they are buying a product certified to the highest standards in the
