Originally Posted by
South Prince
Then the Germans (government) should be thrown out of Europe and EASA. This is not acceptable. What is ECA and other unions doing about this?
Well, there is a huge loophole as currently there is no clear EASA rule what information has to be transferred in which form between local authorities to accept another countries license and transfer it into the other authority. As the CAA has a very different idea on that than what the german authority is able to do, there is an impasse. The LBA simply cannot transfer data it doesn't have in the first place (due to german privacy laws).
There is currently an NPR up by the EASA about that issue, but until that is turned into hard EASA regulation it will take some time. As far as i'm aware both VC as the german union as well as ECA are working on that issue, but a solution is not expected anytime soon. And easyJet now does accept german licenses, at least for those joining from airberlin, no idea if its now a general rule though. However, they require those joining to renew their rating on their own before they join if it is valid for less than 60 days from date of joining.