Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:01 pm
#1592496
Genghis the Engineer wrote:Can't speak for anybody else, but with the switch from CAA to JAA then EASA, my reference number has never changed.
My plastic 61.75 says "UK issued PPL No.", my CPL still has that number on it and PPL privileges listed - the combination has been seen and discussed by several US rentouters, and nobody's had a problem with it.
G
It's not the 7 digit CAA Reference Number that's the issue; it's the licence number.
The licence number, from "CAA poo brown", to JAA, to EASA, to "modern UK CAA" always* contained/contains the Reference number as part of its formulation, but the full licence number is different in each case.
It is the full licence number that is quoted on the back of the FAA Certificate, and it is that which must be consistent with the "based on" licence that you use. i.e. not "123456K" but "EASA.FCL.PP.123456K.A"
There was an FAA Counsel's Opinion on this at the time, and the licence numbers must match for the FAA 61.75 certificate to be valid**. There were several threads here at the time, quoting chapter & verse with links. It is why the CAA had people at GA events for a season, prepared and ready to complete the verification forms in person without pilots needing to attend at Gatwick as they now do.
*Well, since standardised CAA Reference numbers came in, anyway. Early 90s?
** See here (.doc file) for a statement to that effect hosted on the EASA website.