Mine was for an A380 type, for which there are 2 UK approved simulators but the operators of the sims do not generally entertain individual clients so access to them was a problem.
You can apply for the exemption in your personal capacity, so you do not need the airline to apply for you. They also gave me the "You do not have an urgent operational need" but I just kept at them, explaining the "urgent operational need" was legally ambiguous and highly subjective depending on your point of view.
Proving your case is straight forward once you get past the urgent operational need issue. I wrote to their simulator standards section to ask them where I could find their post-brexit simulator standards. The head was kind enough to reply and highlighted that they used EASA standards and there has been no deviation by the UK from the EASA standards that were in force on 31/12/2020. Case made...
It took 6 months of back and forth to eventually get this out of them. I was also considering an A320 type rating, or doing a SEP/CPL/IR in order to get a frozen ATP(my case was a conversion from an ICAO ATPL).
My plan was eventually killed by the UK TRE requirement, so I made another plan. You may well run into the same issue as you might find that all the UK TRE's on the CL65 have pushed off to EASAland and no longer have valid qualifications. In fact, a quick search of the UK CAA data doesn't show any TREs'for the CL65, so getting a sim approval may be a moot point.
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