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The Colony of Three Islands has come up with a proposal for World Aviation Authority. This is of interest to our country, the People's Republic of Airmen Overseers and we would like to see some sort of international Aviation Authority standarize the skies.

The proposal, I have cut and pasted, it is as follows:

Description: In order to facilitate trade and safety certain international standards need to be maintained so that aircraft are properly serviced, pilots are adequately trained, navigation facilities operate within international standards.

Aware that aviation procedures and facilities need to be standardized to promote safety and trade;

Mindful of the difficulties and hazards to aviation should each nation set its own standards;

Understanding the international nature of aviation and its ability to cross boarders;

Resolved that a United Nations World Aviation Authority be created to set all international aviation standards to increase safety and encourage trade for all member states.

Thank you for your support. Just one example of what could happen should different countries support different aviantion standards, one country could operate in feet while another in meters. Some countries count the ground as zero while others measure the ground in terms of how far it is above sea level.

Can you imagine what would happen if navigation equipment was not standardized, so one nations aircraft could not navigate while in another's territory, and there have been examples were one aircraft obeyed their instruments instructions to dive to avoid a collision while another ignored its instruments and obeyed the ground controller instead (the result was fatal).

Without international standards for aviation saftey will suffer and so will trade as a result.

You're going to have to do something with this besides create a committee. From the rules (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=420465):

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Committees may be created, as long as certain things are kept in mind: nations do not sit on committees, they are staffed by mystical beings that instantly spring into existance and live only to serve on said committee. Committees are also bound by the above MetaGame rules. Also, keep in mind that Committees are additions to Proposals; they shouldn't be all the Proposal does.

It also seems like a Category violation - this would put in place regulations, and has little to do with labour law anyway.

And I would be uncomfortable with giving an unaccountable committee the power to set "all international aviation standards".

The problem is, once you create the committee, the issue of standardizing and codifying aviation is an extremely boring one. Setting specific widths of runways, classifying something an A, B, or C and setting transmision codes and frequencies.

The committee has sets the standards so that everyone plays by the same set of rules and everyone from every nation knows what to expect.

The first proposal was too vauge and gave too much of a blank check, so the proposal now has some additions to address this, I hope this makes the World Aviation Authority more palitable now.



In order to facilitate trade and safety certain international standards need to be maintained so that aircraft are properly serviced, pilots are adequately trained, navigation facilities operate within international standards.

Aware that aviation procedures and facilities need to be standardized to promote safety and trade;

Mindful of the difficulties and hazards to aviation should each nation set its own standards;

Understanding the international nature of aviation and its ability to cross boarders;

Resolved that a United Nations World Aviation Authority be created to set all international aviation standards to increase safety and encourage trade for all member states and will set such standards as,

(1) Set standards of training for pilots and mechanics under which each nation's civil aviation authority would monitor its own airlines,

(2) The World Aviation Authority would be required to sumbit its proposals for standards to the UN for approval, and the UN may reject or approve its proposals,
(3)A unified and coded system of frequencies used as aids to navigation,

(4) Establish English as the only language spoken by air traffic controlers and pilots when used over the radio to minimize confusion,

Further resolved that each nation has soveign rights over its territories and airspace which includes, but is not limited to,

(1) The right to deny landing or overflights permits to any aircraft except those aircraft which declare an emergency in which safety requires a landing or quick transit through airpace,

(2) Each nation would have the ability to ramp check any aircraft landing in its territory to ensure safety standards,

(3) Each nation matains soul rights to its own territory and airspace,

(4) Each nation has rights to charge overflight permit fees, and or landing fees as it sees fit,

(5) Each nation may allow or deny the ability to fly from one airport in their territory to another within their country or may reserve that abilty soley for a domestic airline,

(6) Each nation has the ability to set its own customs and security standards for airlines and its crew and passengers.

Cobdenia had something like this, and I remember it being a far superior draft. This is the only thread I could find for it:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=410480

The other proposal which was submitted before is really very different from the one now. Open skies is letting anyone with an aircraft fly into your territory and to another point within your territory or on to another country. The idea with that is the cheapest and most efficient airlines would survive and the other would perish. The idea of national airlines would not exist in that sense.

While open skies promotes free trade, it does give up national soveignty. That is something I am sure a number of countries may have some problems, and depending upon how good your own country is with airlines may really benefit or hurt your own aviation idustry. This proposal looks more at setting standards for aviation so that everyone is on the same page and gives each country the right to either make individual open sky agreements or choose not to do so, but most importanly it does give each nation the right to choose what to do with its own airspace and airports.

(2) The World Aviation Authority would be required to sumbit its proposals for standards to the UN for approval, and the UN may reject or approve its proposals,
That sounds illegal to me. All UN committees have to be staffed by the UN gnomes and run autonomously.


(4) Establish English as the only language spoken by air traffic controlers and pilots when used over the radio to minimize confusion,
That will never get passed the General Assembly. Although setting universal signals and frequencies may be a good idea, I know many people will oppose any language standard, myself included.


(3) Each nation matains soul rights to its own territory and airspace
"Sole"?