A good plan in theory and there are plenty of unemployed pilots around but the CAA is just a regulator. It works for the Government as an aviation police officer ensuring laws and regulations written by Government are complied with. Its role through the Brexit negotiations was to provide technical advice and I am sure it did. Sadly, the politicians weren't interested in opinions from experts they had only one aim.
It is staggering that the UK negotiators who"held all the cards" and were going to get an even better deal than the one we already have, with no downsides, have managed to negotiate the best possible deal for Irish pilots and the very worst for UK pilots. Good luck to our Irish colleagues and things are already starting to fall into place in MANbase. its no wonder Rees-Mogg moved part of his hedge fund to Dublin. I knows its going to be boom time over there.
In the midst of all this stupidity, the Government has from June also managed to cancel its subscription to the EGNOS Safety Of Life part of the Galileo project taking away a great opportunity to enhance safety in the UK by upgrading approaches at smaller airports and improving helicopter operations for minimal cost. All because there is an E in EGNOS. At least Shapps has sheepishly admitted that this was possibly a mistake although they are hoping to bury this next bit of bad news in all the background noise. Amazingly, the DfT have admitted that they were only on the edge of the room for this part of the negotiation. Clearly, out omnipotent Mr Frost knew best and we will of course be launching our own world beating rocket star satellite system thingy imminently.