The black comedy of Euro licensing
Here's a current situation.
ATPL(H) with a UK-issued JAR license, LPC, medical wants to go flying in Ireland.
IAA say that his language proficiency statement doesn't comply with standards.
Apparently the UK CAA have been issuing licenses with this error and have failed to do anything about it.Or even inform the holders. All other "States" turn a blind-eye - but not the Irish.
So - an English pilot has to prove he can speak English before he can fly in Eire.
CAA say they can issue a letter "in 10 days". That'll be 8 days after the flight, then.
This is a plainly ridiculous cock-up by the CAA - and an even more ridiculous pedantic knee-jerk by little minds in Dublin.
Please take the 1957 Treaty of Rome and shove it somewhere dark.