Snowbirdxx
Well-Known Member
I am attaching a letter from the MT prop VP about the ncrease in Fees for maintaining a TC Type certificate valid with EASA. Just to show you how we get screwed by our feds.
TomD For those unfamiliar with the Euro US & Rate 1 Euro = 1.36 US $
Fees and Charges EASA
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I write this in English for our International colleges.
Last Friday, March 05th we had a Meeting of the German General Aviation
Manufacturers and Service Centers (BBAL) and Mr. Josef Schiller from BMV.
We were informed that there will be a new release of the Fees and Charges
and available to the public by April or May 2010.
Basically it will be an increase of the fees and for instance we were told
for the fixed fee for TCs of propellers by Factor 16.
In these difficult times where all companies and also MT-Propeller talk to
their employees to not increase the salary and parallel we were not able to
increase list prices due to the difficult economic time to not loose the
last customers. This increase by factor 16 shows very clearly that it is
totally unplaced and has nothing to do with the present and future economic
position.
MT-Propeller paid in the last 6 years a fixed fee for TC of Euro 13.200,-.
In the last 6 years there was just one editorial change of an old LBA LTA
(AD). If we assume, that this change took 8 hours it was very well paid
with Euro 1.650,- per hour.
If we multiply now those costs by factor 16, we would have paid Euro
211.200,- which reflects Euro 26.400,- per hour.
This payment has nothing to do anymore with the real work performed from
the EASA to the industry and it should not be called a invoice or fee for
work, but maybe a new way of taxes.
I do not know if there can be just a new tax defined which must be paid by
the industry which is then the tax payer.
If this fee increases in a level like this who can ensure us that the EASA
will not increase the fee by factor 25 in 4 years?
This will definitely lead to the fact that more and more General Aviation
companies will go out of business and EASA will get back the TCs as the
company is in insolvency and then we have less companies paying the fees
and then the fee must again be increased which will lead to the fact that
more companies will go out of business and return the TCs and so on.
It is time now for the BBAL, ALROUND, BDLI to distribute the new fees and
charges that we have more information what is additionally coming up.
About the fees and charges I talked to the Director of EASA, Dr. Norbert
Lohl, and he did not deny it and just told me, we have to go to the
European Commission because they are responsible for the increase of the
fees.
In any case, the EASA financing started completely wrong because for all of
us it is very clear that we need a strong EASA but a strong EASA is only
possible with a strong industry and one thing is for sure, if industry
falls first, EASA will be the second.
I hope to hear from BBAL, ALROUND and BDLI soon because here we cannot
loose any time.
It can only be that the original discussion starts again that we can only
propose 1 Euro per passenger ticket to finance a strong and successful EASA
and in times where it is possible to fly for Euro 29,- on an airline in
Europe, I do not see a real problem here.
Thanks,
With best regards,
MT-Propeller Entwicklung GmbH
Martin Albrecht
Vice President / General Manager
TomD For those unfamiliar with the Euro US & Rate 1 Euro = 1.36 US $
Fees and Charges EASA
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I write this in English for our International colleges.
Last Friday, March 05th we had a Meeting of the German General Aviation
Manufacturers and Service Centers (BBAL) and Mr. Josef Schiller from BMV.
We were informed that there will be a new release of the Fees and Charges
and available to the public by April or May 2010.
Basically it will be an increase of the fees and for instance we were told
for the fixed fee for TCs of propellers by Factor 16.
In these difficult times where all companies and also MT-Propeller talk to
their employees to not increase the salary and parallel we were not able to
increase list prices due to the difficult economic time to not loose the
last customers. This increase by factor 16 shows very clearly that it is
totally unplaced and has nothing to do with the present and future economic
position.
MT-Propeller paid in the last 6 years a fixed fee for TC of Euro 13.200,-.
In the last 6 years there was just one editorial change of an old LBA LTA
(AD). If we assume, that this change took 8 hours it was very well paid
with Euro 1.650,- per hour.
If we multiply now those costs by factor 16, we would have paid Euro
211.200,- which reflects Euro 26.400,- per hour.
This payment has nothing to do anymore with the real work performed from
the EASA to the industry and it should not be called a invoice or fee for
work, but maybe a new way of taxes.
I do not know if there can be just a new tax defined which must be paid by
the industry which is then the tax payer.
If this fee increases in a level like this who can ensure us that the EASA
will not increase the fee by factor 25 in 4 years?
This will definitely lead to the fact that more and more General Aviation
companies will go out of business and EASA will get back the TCs as the
company is in insolvency and then we have less companies paying the fees
and then the fee must again be increased which will lead to the fact that
more companies will go out of business and return the TCs and so on.
It is time now for the BBAL, ALROUND, BDLI to distribute the new fees and
charges that we have more information what is additionally coming up.
About the fees and charges I talked to the Director of EASA, Dr. Norbert
Lohl, and he did not deny it and just told me, we have to go to the
European Commission because they are responsible for the increase of the
fees.
In any case, the EASA financing started completely wrong because for all of
us it is very clear that we need a strong EASA but a strong EASA is only
possible with a strong industry and one thing is for sure, if industry
falls first, EASA will be the second.
I hope to hear from BBAL, ALROUND and BDLI soon because here we cannot
loose any time.
It can only be that the original discussion starts again that we can only
propose 1 Euro per passenger ticket to finance a strong and successful EASA
and in times where it is possible to fly for Euro 29,- on an airline in
Europe, I do not see a real problem here.
Thanks,
With best regards,
MT-Propeller Entwicklung GmbH
Martin Albrecht
Vice President / General Manager
