Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:07 am
#1481269
The way I see it, and convince myself about it, is based on stepping back from the detail first:
1) the CAA used to be able to decide who can fly uk aircraft in uk airspace... So if they said a library ticket was good enough, it was. (They didn't though)
2) EASA came along, and in principal the CAA role in (1) was limited to non-EASA aircraft and non EASA licences, but there is a bridging period allowing some flexibility apparently ending in April 2018. Part of the bridging agreement seems to be that anyone allowed to fly in the UK without a "proper" fully armed EASA licence with EASA medical equivalent or better can still fly EASA aircraft up to April 2018 providing they don't exceed things a lapl pilot can do (but they may be restricted from even lapl like flying... Eg an nppl ssea cannot do as much as a lapl pilot)
3) the CAA has decided, in relation to g reg non EASA aircraft, that all sorts of licences and self declaration medicals can fly them in uk airspace, including an EASA ppl, Sep rating, and a uk declaration medical. Because of that, this combination is also allowed to fly EASA aircraft too in the uk until the bridging period ends.... providing they don't do anything in EASA aircraft that exceeds what a lapl pilot can do. But because the medical is less than ICAO standard, stay in the uk.
So for example... EASA ppl, Sep, instructor certificate, I/r, Mep rating, self declare medical, EASA aircraft... No instructing even with an FI or CRI rating... Because a lapl can't instruct. Go ifr in that combination? No, because you can't on a lapl. Go multi? No, because a lapl can't, etc etc. Switch back to a class two EASA medical from the uk declaration, and suddenly everything switches back on again, as it is a proper fully EASA licence/rating/medical combination again.
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
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