Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
As all UK issued licences under EASA FCL become national licences on January 1st, it seems highly unlikely to me that the UK will permit itself to be in a position where the majority of the G-reg fleet can be flown only by holders of foreign licences.
This is where we must be very careful with the terminology of what a national licence is. From January 1st terms for UK issued licences will split into FCL and non-FCL - those that are currently EASA FCL will become UK FCL (and allow flight on Part-21 and non-Part-21 G-reg), those that are currently UK National will be referred to as non-FCL (and will only allow flight on non-Part-21 G-reg). There are no initial plans for the UK FCL licences to mirror UK National licences under the ANO, they will continue as now and mirror EASA FCL licences. It would be nice to hope for fairly instant exemptions to allow wider use of licences, but if it happens at all then it may well come with conditions analogous to LAPL privileges only or similar - we just don't know right now.