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		<title>GAAC Chairman meets with John Howell MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAAC Chairman Charles Henry meets with John Howell MP at Portcullis House to discuss the NPPF and General Aviation. John Howell MP is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP the Minister for Decentralisation and Localism charged with seeing through the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) legislation.  The NPPF contains proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changes to Planning Legislation &#8211; your airfield is under threat.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government appears determined to press ahead with what for airfields is a potentially disastrous revision of the existing National  Planning legislation which forms the basis for Local Planning Authorities decision making.  The proposed National Planning Policy Framework sweeps away previous protection by imposing a &#8216;presumption to grant sustainsable building development&#8217;.  Airfields will lose what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm wars</title>
		<link>http://www.gaac.org.uk/content/?p=269</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAAC PRESS RELEASE 2 AUGUST 2011 The General Aviation Awareness Council represents sixty General Aviation (GA) 0rganisations and fights to protect airfields from unsafe developments and to defend your freedom to fly. Forecast Increase in number of wind-turbines.  The projected increase poses potential threats to the safe operation of aviation and you should know how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics Airspace Restrictions on GA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Home Office and DfT have published details of the severe restrictions on GA activity in the airspace around London  during the forthcoming Olympics.  This could effectively shut down many airfields for two months. David Shephard (DfT) will be addressing the GAAC Annual General Meeting on the subject of the airspace  restrictions on Friday 20th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAAC Representing GA</title>
		<link>http://www.gaac.org.uk/content/?p=241</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GAAC is actively defending  the rights of GA.  Charles Henry (Chairman) is representing GA on the CAA consultative committee for CAP764 (Wind Turbines), CAP 793 (Low Flying Rules) and the proposed EASA changes to pilot licensing. The Olympic Games pose a potential threat to GA in the vicinity of London and current proposals would virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eurocontrol Threat to Gliding and GA</title>
		<link>http://www.gaac.org.uk/content/?p=219</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eurocontrol, the ‘European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation’, is currently consulting on its proposed Standardised European Rules of the Air (SERA). Once established, these rules will affect us all from 2012. This letter from the British Gliding Association seeks your support and offers guidance on how to respond to the consultation.]]></description>
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		<title>GAAC Wind Turbines Workshop Minutes &#8211; 12 November 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.gaac.org.uk/content/?p=196</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAAC Wind Turbine Workshop 12 November 2009 Discussion points Charles Henry, Chairman of GAAC opened the meeting and introduced the speakers. Paper 1: Why we need a policy, who is currently facing the problem and who might be in the future. Presented by Peter Harvey, Chief Executive of the Light Aircraft Association. Paper 2: Planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAAC Wind-Turbine Workshop Focuses on Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The workshop held at RAeS House, London, on 12 November was organised as a response to the growing safety threat posed to General Aviation by the Government’s promotion of wind-turbines. The workshop was attended by representatives of aviation organisations including major international airports, general aviation airfield operators, aviation associations, planning specialists, the British Wind Energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind -Turbines and their potential threat to the safety of General Aviation</title>
		<link>http://www.gaac.org.uk/content/?p=185</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL AVIATION AWARENESS COUNCIL RAeS House, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ Tel: 020 7670 4501 PRESS RELEASE 13 OCTOBER 2009 WIND-TURBINES AND THEIR POTENTIAL THREAT TO THE SAFETY OF GENERAL AVIATION. A WORKSHOP TO BE HELD AT RAeS HOUSE, 4 HAMILTON PLACE, LONDON, W1J 7BQ. Taking the iniative to head-off the threat posed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A reminder to GA of the work done behind the scenes.</title>
		<link>http://www.gaac.org.uk/content/?p=180</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General aviation has been going through some of the most difficult times in its history.  The imposition of unnecessarily onerous EASA regulations, rising CAA regulatory costs, bureaucratic and costly Part M maintenance rules, airfields threatened by building development, windfarms and now proposed charges for using radios and nav equipment, Mode S and so on and [...]]]></description>
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