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Gangbusters Redux

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Key Takeaways:

  • An avionics development and certification expert refutes the editor's skepticism, asserting that significant regulatory reforms, particularly a complete rewrite of FAA Part 23, have been instrumental in recent GA sales growth.
  • These reforms, which the author personally contributed to, have simplified the approval process for safety-enhancing systems in small aircraft, ushering in a period of unprecedented avionics innovation.
  • The changes have specifically benefited owner-flown aircraft, driving a synergistic increase in new aircraft sales, used aircraft sales, and upgrades by making safety-related technologies more affordable and accessible.
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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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