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Defending Our Rights

Receiving this letter from AOPA Italy's President, we're glad to propose it to our Readers.

As soon as new AOPA Italy's Board was appointed, some initiatives were started supposing to get some participation from AOPA Members and other Italian pilots: those initiatives were surveys about Italian GA aircraft characteristics and RAN's (National Aeronautical Registry) performance.

AOPA needed thorough and actual data to face politicians and Administration, not only impressions and rumours as happened until now.

Average Italian pilot, not excepting aircraft owners and operators, is used to bewail loudly but to commit himself very little and risk even less to defend his own rights.

Therefore, initiatives got only a few answers: in particular, aircraft charachteristics survey, whose data are fundamental to determine actions to undertake with respect to Italian Authorities, has been almost totally neglected. Survey about RAN's performance was more successful, but several forms are still missing, notably the ones which suggested us to take action.

Fear of expressing a civil but firm opinion causes sometimes involuntary humour: an AOPA Member, declaring in survey form to have been asked for strange and exotic papers by RAN and to have endured usual, prolonged vexations, finally getting his registration certificate several months after application, defined RAN's service as "acceptable"! In civil Countries such a management would have been named "pitiful" without any excuse.

If we continue bearing any vexation, even indirectly encouraging it for fear of greater punitions, we loose any right to lament the situation.

AOPA Members should realize to be right, and realize as well that they hold the civil right to express, even angrily, their dissatisfaction towards inefficiency and dullness of Administration. Present situation has been caused even by undergoing anything for sake of quietness.

We believe that, with some participation and little courage of AOPA Members, our actions with Vice-Minister Mr. Albertini towards simplification of aviation-related matters and defence and expansion of airports would be far more effective.

Andrea Corte
President
AOPA Italia
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

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