johnm wrote:TLRippon wrote:Irv,
If LAPL is an EASA licence, why would it suffer a fate different to a PPL after no deal BREXIT?
Because it isn't ICAO compliant AFAIK, I expect Irv will confirm.
That is the short version. I get people asking me all sorts of stuff all the time, some start with "which sort of..." i have to be really careful with NOT telling people what they should do as everyone is different. I just give either known facts or possibilities and then they make their own decisions. Why? Because unlike EASA's view, not everyone in or entering aviation at the hobby level can afford to spend money on someone telling them what to do and then finding out later it didn't really get them where they wanted to be. (Why did an Irish airline pop into my head?).
The longer version: It is not impossible that with a hard Brexit where we leave Easa, Easa might not recognise UK Lapls and of course only easa states do do automatically at the moment, leaving us with a uk only licence. Neither is it impossible easa may recognise some lapls and not others, having a cut off date of the date we left, just like ssea conversions. It is quite possible we will pay to stay in Easa so nothing changes except our voting.
All these issues need to be laid out for people about to spend money, many cannot afford otherwise, and there is no simple answer right now.
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
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