Originally Posted by
anson harris
I'm pretty sure that you can't do that. The point of the exercise is to keep an EASA licence alive rather than to have a licence that you can actually use. If you are going to work in the UK, then once you start a new type rating, transfer over your IAA licence to the CAA and add the new type rating once you've done it.
Correct;
If you can gain employment (on the same type) in UK with your IAA 'restricted' EASA licence the restriction will be lifted by IAA as soon as you pass your LPC prior to release to line ops with your new employer.
Your now unrestricted IAA licence should (according to EASA regs) then be acceptable to UK CAA for transfer.