Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:01 am
#1889387
TODAY’S THE DAY . . .
If the CAA remains ‘silent’ today, and does NOT ‘derogate’, as they have regularly done each year in the past, then Sir Morley Steven’s original post is being answered!
At midnight tonight, as I understand it, any U.K. resident pilot who is flying only on FAA papers will be grounded.
He/she will only be able to fly in U.K. airspace provided they possess a current CAA license I.e. with a current BFR and a current Medical (hard to get in these turbulent Covid times).
Even then, they will not be able to exercise IR privileges in Class A airspace unless their IR is converted and attached to their CAA license.
How many pilots are actually flying only on FAA papers, as against an FAA 61.75 license (a ‘piggy-back’ ‘based-on’ their originally possessed CAA license) is a moot point; but there must be some for whom today is the end of the road.
What has happened to the mantra: “Making the U.K. the best place in the world for GA”?