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By Irv Lee
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Just to list two new ones around this month from more than one pilot, to add to all the others in the past:
1- the rumour that if you have Easa or EU written on your UK issued licence you have to pay a few hundred quid by year end to convert it into a UK non Easa licence. Wrong! This is meant for pilots who used to have a UK licence once but deliberately moved it to another Easa State... IF they want to fly G reg from end of year, they can regain a UK licence (in addition to their existing foreign easa one) with paper and money without going through the standard conversion process involving exams, tests, hours, etc. If you have a licence with its 'number' starting GBR then this 'do something by end of 2022' story does not affect you at all.

2- Ten year expiring radio licences - pilots not realising their radio/English had been put into the new format A4 (pilot) licence for life when the latter was reprinted for some reason, so they were worried when suddenly noticing that their separate page radio licences had apparently expired - and trying to renew thrm. in fact the radio and English privileges had already been made lifetime in the pilot licence after an address change or added rating reprint.