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Gangbusters Redux

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Key Takeaways:

  • An avionics expert refutes the editor's claim that there haven't been recent regulatory changes significantly impacting General Aviation (GA) sales growth.
  • He details his extensive involvement in a complete rewrite of Part 23 regulations and the development of industry standards, which simplified certification processes for small aircraft.
  • These reforms have fostered affordable, innovative safety-enhancing avionics, especially for owner-flown aircraft, and are believed to be a direct contributor to the current increase in GA sales.
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In your Editor’s Log in the July 2022 issue, “Gangbusters,” you comment on remarks made by Pete Bunce of GAMA on GA aircraft sales growth this year. You state that “Bunce attributes at least some of his industry’s sales growth to ‘regulatory reforms…that enable new technology and new aircraft and entrants.” You then proceed to discount Pete’s analysis, claiming that “there really haven’t been any ‘recent’ changes” and, inconsistently, that “even if there were, it takes time for such upheavals to ripple through the certification and production process.”

As one who was there, let me assure you that you’re wrong.

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