Originally Posted by
arketip
When did that happen?
It happened about a year ago. EASA and the European Commission decided to ban FAA and other ICAO licensed pilots who are European Citizens from working in Europe. Despite the fact that for many of them they had already worked for years in this way with no issue.Careers were destroyed, jobs lost and many good pilots with families were instantly unemployable in all of Europe. If the public don't believe that EASA are capable of the same behaviour towards UK issued EASA pilot licenses and pilots then they are mistaken. Although it has to be said that there were many instances of gloating from UK EASA pilots when their non EASA licensed colleagues found themselves in the above situation, so it is now hugely ironic that they find themselves in the exact same situation. By the way in the above situation the UK CAA just let it happen, they blamed the DfT and when approached they wouldn't give any contact details of the responsible party at the DfT, as the above situation could have been avoided.