Originally Posted by
biddedout
And that sums up the stupidity of the situation thanks to the decision to leave EASA for purely ideological flag shagging reasons. There will not be any airlines anywhere in Europe requiring a UK licence and the right to live and work in the EU and yet our masters have come up with a situation where an EASA licence is a requirement for a job based in the UK because EU registered aircraft are allowed to be based in the UK. Industry and the CAA didn't want to leave EASA, they could see no advantage to doing so. Shapps will claim it was so that we could diverge on regulation but other than the possibility off a few minor rule changes for GA what parts of safety regulation does he think we are going to go it alone on?
Already the CAA have announced that they are going to fully align with new regulations for UAV's so what was the point? UK pilots have been completely stitched up by this Government.
Absolutely correct.
I have given it some thought and can't come up with any other industry where those at the pointy end, responsible for so much and open to such intense scrutiny have been screwed to such an extent.