[Hitch]

G-URMS yesterday completed IFR inflight testing.

Europas had already flown IFR for many years in the United States. But this is new for the U.K.

Great news for suitability equipped and approved Europas in the U.K. Well done G-URMS! Well done the CAA! Well done the LAA!

https://www.theeuropaclub.org

[mona44]

Congratulations! How long did the process take from the initial MOD15 application?

[CloudHound]

Calm down, calm.......

Well just a bit anyway. The flight from Blackbushe was about approval to fly at night. No small feat in itself.

Further on will be approval to fly in IMC. IFR? Well one day hopefully.

[Iceman]

Ah, we saw the aircraft arrive yesterday and wondered what is was doing.

Iceman

[carlp101]

Hi all.

Yes, it was me. Guilty as charged.

As cloudhound said, it was a night flight to get the night rating approved. She's already been assessed for IMC and passed. Hopefully just the paperwork to get processed now and she'll be the first UK Europa to be approved for night & IMC.

Onwards & upwards......literally

ATB
Carl

[carlp101]

Just a quick update for anyone interested.

G-URMS was successfully certified for night and IMC last year! This means all Europas can apply to do the same and should be successful if they have the appropriate avionics and lighting.

[CloudHound]

Well done!

Having recently flown a Europa I was very impressed with its stability so would have no qualms flying in IMC.

[pplmeir]

That is awesome.

Does approved for IMC mean approved for ifr e.g UK class A (with ir rated pilot) or is that different approval again

[Ibra]

That is awesome.

Does approved for IMC mean approved for ifr e.g UK class A (with ir rated pilot) or is that different approval again

As long as the aircraft is approved IFR and complies with instrument requirements for controlled airspace, it’s good to go up to FL280 everywhere

For navigation, lot of aircrafts are well capable of IFR outside controlled airspace or in zones but did not have equipment for en-route IFR in controlled airspace as it require more stuff (e.g. ADF+DME+2*VOR all FM immune used to be required for Airways, now these are replaced with IFR PBN GPS for PBN (RNAV & RNP) with backup being VOR/Radar, although these are only applicable in Class A above FL95, the GPS however needs to certified and has an approved install in AFM/POH with the supplement signed, you have to pay +500£/year to get waypoints up to date and some SD card slotted in the box every 28 days), for communication & transponder, you need ModeS & one 8.33khz (unless aircraft or airspace or operation needs two radios)