Thanks for the update Colin! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!
Hope 2017 goes more smoothly for you on your KR2 World Tour from Japan onwards. Be sure to stop over if you are ever back in Ontario Canada! Beer is on me!( or anything else you need) Cheers Chris Gardiner KR2S ? Ontario Canada Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: colin hales via KRnet Sent: December 20, 2016 2:18 PM To: colin hales Cc: colin hales Subject: KR> That will do for the year!!! Hi all. Lots of news I suppose, some might know I made it to Japan, just before the winter arrived in Russia, some might not. I think this will be my big rush to get home for Christmas now, so I'll make it into a Merry Christmas and Happy new year to all update. Today I got a definitive news from the Japanese JCAB. Basically it is a big NO to flying through Japan for many more weeks. I wanted to move the aircraft and have been told to move the plane by the airport manager, but I can not as the Authorities won't give me permission to fly? They were annoyed with me for not moving it sooner. Now they seem sympathetic to the fact that I am still here. I have to move the plane though, because it is exposed and if it snows and it will, they can't move the snow that easily because my plane is in the way... So I've had a bit of a rethink and come up with a plan B, that I will try and stick to... Plan B is to take the wings off and find a garage or shed to store the plane in here at Niigata. Not that easy, the hangars here are mostly government coast guards or military. So I might have to put it on a truck and take it 80 miles to a gliding club where I have secured hangar space for the foreseeable future. I need to go home and would like to stay until the first week in Feb, about 6 weeks. This time would not be wasted and sitting here for three weeks on my own and missing the festivities, trying to see if I can get permission, is not a pleasant thought. So I'm going to bale again, go home, regroup and have plenty of time to get everything in place for my return, including all permissions, so I can move swiftly on in the new year, So thank you all for your assistance, those who have, it is most appreciated. I think I've got this covered and do not need any more help for a while. I will be in touch in the new year with the much improved and focused home run for Itzy and the Kr2 Worldtour. So Merry Christmas and a happy New year to you all. Regards, Colin H. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to read the boring stuff below you can??? Its the response from the JCAB. They referred back to the 1944 ICAO agreements and I'm not going to argue with that. I'll just ask them for the permission. I know I should have done this in the first place, but it was not something I was going to bring up when trying to escape the Russian winter. If they had clocked the error I would have been refused entry and still be stuck in Russia till May apparently. So I am still on a winner... I have some great contacts now and these permissions can be obtained in good time. I have the contact of the lady who deals with the Red Bull Air race permit applications as their aircraft mostly fly on a permit too. So I know the forms and procedures, well I will when she sends them to me. I need to wind back and not be too insistent as I was because I am just sitting here wasting my time and money in hotels and about to miss Christmas at home. So this is the JCAB response. Dear. Mr. Colin Hales article 31 of ICAO dated 7 December 1944 said ?Every aircraft engaged in international navigation shall be provided with a certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid by the state in which it is registered?, article 5 said ????subject to the observance of the terms of this Convention, to make flights into or in transit non-stop across its territory and to make stops for non-traffic purposes without the necessity of obtaining prior permission, ???" Permit to FLY of your aircraft said ?does not constitute of airworthiness issued pursuant to the ICAO? and ?This exemption is granted subject to the condition that before flying within any other country, permission is obtained from the appropriate authority of that country.? According to the ICAO rules, every aircraft must have a valid airworthiness certificate upon international flight. AIP Japan article 2.1.1 is based on the ICAO rules, but your aircraft don?t have an airworthiness certificate on ICAO standard, additionally, your Permit to FLY is demand that you need to get permission from other country authority. Therefore, we think your aircraft need to obtain the permission from appropriate authority of other country before fly to it country. We are confirming it to Civil Aviation Authority of UK. Regard Toshihiro Chief Official Aviation Industries Division Aviation Network Department Japan Civil Aviation Bureau This is more information that arrived today. Ok Colin, the Fed Bull planes are 90% American registered experimental exhibition category aircraft. They apply for permission to make local flights and this has been granted by JCAB each time they come for the race but they are restricted to the race airport to the race track and back. JCAB does not normally allow experimental aircraft out of the 9km radius of the airport that the experimental is permitted to fly at. Without going into detail, I have seen the occasional repositioning flight permitted. So I have 4 re-positioning flights through Japan to acquire permission for. Its a start. CH. _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org
