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Old 29th Aug 2018, 11:24
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Originally Posted by Fl1ingfrog
One contributor has described much of the facts in this thread as bl/sht and I agree. All 28 members (soon to be 27) of the EU member states are members of ICAO in their own right. There are 192 members of ICAO worldwide so the EU group is a small part. ICAO it could be said only provides for the minimum acceptable international standards of all its members. So all EASA standards will be acceptable to ICAO member states in this regard. The UK leaving the EU does not change this. The EU cannot join ICAO it is not a State. Incidentally 7 of the current 28 EU states sit on the worldwide council of ICAO!

I would say to any concerned student put all this nonsense out of your mind and concentrate on the training. Your new licence will be recognised worldwide.

Where the UK has got itself into its own tangle was to state that the UK ICAO compliant PPL/CPL and ATPL is to restrict itself to UK privileges only, although it was and should be recognised throughout the world once again
Except, in a no deal scenario the UK won't be ICAO compliant on Brexit day. Lots of things the UK files to be ICAO compliant are simply statements pointing to EASA or other pan-EU policy / groups. As it will have no access to the regulatory structure of the EU and EASA it will not be compliant. The implications of this are enormous and affect every part of the UK air industry and anyone with a UK licence or approval of any sort or any kind of third-country endorsement based on a UK licence or approval. It is increasingly likely they will all be invalid on 30 March 2019.

Now it may be possible to reinstate these missing CAA areas but not by March 29 2019 and not without vast expense which (in-case you hadn't noticed) the CAA is required to recover from you the user.

This is why the CAA were saying for a long time that a "no-deal" Brexit is so catastrophic it isn't worth planning for. There is no viable alternative to a deal that keeps the UK in EASA, at least temporarily, and talk from UK politicians of "no-deal" being fine is insanity of the highest order. If this affects you, you need to be hassling your MP to find an exit from Brexit before it destroys your livelihood.
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