G-BLEW wrote:The SI amendment restricts those to whom the amendment applies to FCL.105.A(a) aeroplane limits (2000kg / 4PoB maxima), whereas the SkyWise announcement restricts them to LAPL(A) privileges e.g. VFR only.
What's the logic for any restrictions on what is an ICAO (UK) PPL
Ian
The only LOGIC that I can detect in restricting the ICAO PPL is purely political expediency. Don't take this as meaning I like the restriction, BUT the fact that they did not do anything for Jan 1st 2021 makes me suspect there are one or two people in the sign off process who were determined not to deviate from EASA rules. I suppose there are people too looking to deviate back to at least 16/09/2012, the last day of JAR. So if you think how would they 'right the wrong' on national licences at all, it is hard to argue against the idea that we left the EU at end of January 2020, but were hit by EASA rules banning national licences in EASA aircraft, which came in weeks later, despite not having a say or vote. So the concept of slipping licensing rules back to Jan 31st 2020 is a compromise that I suspect had to be floated as having a chance of getting through the (suspected) resistance.
So given
a) Slip licence privileges back to pre-EASA-like use
b) slip licence privileges back to final day of UK's EASA memerbership
c) don't slip, do nothing on this
I would want (a), but if I simply cannot have (a) in any reasonable time , then what choice but (b) over (c)?
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
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