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Gangbusters Redux

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Key Takeaways:

  • The author, an avionics certification expert, refutes the editor's skepticism that recent regulatory reforms have impacted General Aviation (GA) sales growth.
  • He details his direct involvement in the FAA's Part 23 rewrite and related industry standards, which simplified the approval process for safety-enhancing technologies, particularly for owner-flown aircraft.
  • These regulatory changes have directly fostered significant avionics innovation and contributed to increased GA sales and upgrades, supporting GAMA's assessment of the market.
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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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