Maybe you should have looked at the Jonker site re certification
before going in to print.
EASA won't accept their South African certification unless they do it
again from scratch with EASA observers.
Alternatively EASA will accept this if South Africa and Europe come
to an agreement at a governmental level to allow this - negotiations
on this now seem to include agreement on bi-lateral airline links
between Europe and SA. In other words come back in a decade or so.
Even if this agreement is reached I wouldn't take a bet against the
Euros saying "that will be fine for the NEXT glider but as the
agreement wasn't in place for the JS1 you'll still have to do it again".
The rather sad joke doing the rounds is "Heard about the new CS
22 Amendment 3 ? All non German gliders must perform worse than German ones"
You might also read the FlightGlobal article I linked to "we have
created a monster" was a memorable quote.
There's no need for recreational aircraft to have this sort of certification.
Mike
Bernard and others
The Republic of South Africa is a signatory state to the
International Convention on Air Navigation (i.e. a member of ICAO
the International Civil Aviation Organisation). As such it uses
processes accepted by all other ICAO member states for matters such
as certification, registration and flight crew licensing. Hence a
South African pilot flying a South African registered aircraft may
fly into other ICAO countries without hindrance.
Provided the certification standard used is compliant with ICAO
Annex 8, other member countries are bound to accept it. Of course,
CS-22 (the EASA glider standard) is so accepted, and continuing
airworthiness control is implied in the certification. So too are
the older OSTIV and BCAR Section K standards.
Australia will AUTOMATICALLY accept type certification by 7 or 8
worldwide regulatory authorities for the issue of an Australian
Certificate of Airworthiness. The EC (EASA) and USA (FAA) are two of
these, as are the UK, Sweden, New Zealand and Canada. An aircraft
with a type certificate issued elsewhere can be issued an Australian
type certificate after the standards and processes used for its
country-of-origin certification have been verified - usually a
desk-top exercise and probably not too difficult in the case of
South Africa as they are generally regarded as a "Western" nation
using standardised processes.
There should be no difficulty other than usual bureaucratic delays
due to workload and too few people working on it to the GFA being
allowed to issue an Australian C of A to a South African-designed
glider. They do this as a delegate of CASA, but CASA does the type
acceptance and then hands on the less complex tasks.
Wombat
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