The reason why there is no 2 year reciprocal recognition of UK LAME Licences by EASA is that the licence didn't simply exist at that point in time. EASA were hardly going to sign up to recognising a licence when nobody knew the format, details and requirements to hold a licence (even though most of us suspected it was going to be a cut and paste from EASA Pt66). The question is, what are the Government going to do about it once the first UK Pt66 Licences are issued instead of just crossing out EASA. on our current Licence?
I transferred to Ireland to maintain EASA and am just waiting for the UK CAA to come up with the process to reactivate my UK rights/Licence.