PUBLICATION OF WITHDRAWAL OF THE DESIGNATION OF RECREATIONAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION SOUTH AFRICA (RAASA) AS AN AVIATION RECREATION ORGANISATION IN TERMS OF SECTION 87(1)(b) OF THE CIVIL AVIATION ACT, 2009
I, Poppy Khoza, in my capacity as Director Civil Aviation Authority and in terms of section 87(1)(b) of the Civil Aviation Act, 2009 hereby withdraws the designation of RAASA as an aviation recreation organisation granted on the 2nd December 2008 in terms of Regulation 149.01.2(1) of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 1997, which was published in the Government Notice no. 11.09 on the 22 November 2010.
All functions and responsibilities that were performed by RAASA in line with their designation will be from the 1 April 2019, be performed by South African Civil Aviation Authority.
The withdrawal thereof shall be effective from the 1 April 2019 and any certificate, licence, permission or registration issued by RAASA and which was valid immediately before the issuing of this Notice, shall remain valid for the period specified in the certificate, licence, permission or registration, as the case may be, unless terminated, cancelled or suspended in terms of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011.
What a terrible shame. Why? The RAASA team and their documentation processes worked so efficiently! Ineffective and disorganized administration processes within our SACAA will ultimately be the killjoy for recreational flying in this country.
Typical. It would be interesting for them to give only ONE good reason for this. I suspect dome greedy, power hungry motives lie behind this move! Soon there will be no recreational flying in SA to control.
I would dearly like to know the reason for this move. Everybody knows that Government departments in the main are inefficient beurocratric money guzzlers. One cannot help but suspect ulterior motives.
All organisations that WORK must now be destroyed and replaced by CAA that does not work. Typically SA government
Good Bye Recreational Aviation!!
We are already struggling in the Certified Aviation Types with SACAA now the Uncertified are going to be combed with the same comb!
People, time to export your machine to a Country that enjoys aviation!! With yourself!!
Dinosaur Engineer
Very sad day indeed!!! with no reason from SACAA….. or do we know the answers??
RAASA functioned so efficiently and with out any excuses and delays. This is indeed a sad day for recreational aviation.