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AOPA ACTION

ACTION IN THE STATES

Jim Coon to lead IAOPA
AOPA senior vice president takes over as secretary general August 1
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL of Aircraft
Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA)
has named AOPA Senior Vice President of
Government Affairs Jim Coon as its next
secretary general. He will take over from
Craig Spence-who is only the fifth leader
of the 56-year-old organization-on August
1. IAOPA's World Assembly, originally set to
take place the previous month in Montreal,
has been postponed.
A few years after the International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO) was established, AOPA leaders in Australia, Canada,
the Philippines, South Africa, and the
United States realized that general aviation
interests were not given enough attention in
ICAO. Those five AOPAs founded IAOPA in
1962, "to facilitate the movement of general
aviation aircraft internationally."

In 1964 IAOPA was accepted as the sole
general aviation observer to ICAO proceedings, a distinction the organization
maintains to this day.
As senior vice president of government
affairs, Coon is responsible for the implementation of AOPA's political, legislative, and
regulatory initiatives before Congress, federal agencies, and state legislatures. He has
more than three decades of experience working with Congress and the aviation industry.
Coon has held the role of staff director for
the House Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure and majority staff director for the House aviation subcommittee. He
has also served in leadership roles for the
National Air Transportation Association,
The Boeing Company, and the Air Transport
Association (now A4A).

Accomplishments of IAOPA
IAOPA HAS HAD a significant impact on world aviation.
Among its accomplishments, IAOPA worked with international organizations to:
* Mandate requirements for improved general aviation
facilities at international airports.
* Validate private pilot licenses by foreign countries.
* Remove GA from airline requirements and develop international operational guidelines specifically for general aviation.
* Revise the world airspace classification system to provide for general aviation operations.
* Restructure and improve the ICAO pilot licensing
requirements.
* Permit VFR and mixed VFR/IFR operations within controlled airspace.

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* Reduce the impact of avionics and other equipment
requirements for general aviation aircraft to operate within
controlled airspace.
* Help plan the Future Air Navigation System to the
advantage of general aviation.
* Educate world aviation bodies about general aviation and
aerial work activities.
* Eliminate restrictions to the use of airports and airspace.
In addition to regular participation at ICAO headquarters and regional meetings, IAOPA represents the interests
of general aviation before the European Union, Eurocontrol,
European Civil Aviation Conference, and Joint Aviation
Authorities.
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