Originally Posted by
NoelEvans
... meant the UK CAA remaining only as a 'local admin office' of EASA with the UK having no say in how that 'admin' is directed.
and that would have been completely non-problematic, as the CAA was, is, and will continue to operate in close alignment with EASA aviation standards, seeing as it helped to create the vast majority of them when it was a member of EASA, and because a lot of them are seen as 'best practice'. A similar arrangement works perfectly well for Norway and Switzerland...
or, you know, we could have ignored the non-binding vote that only half the country participated in and just stayed as a major player in the rule making of the EU... but I digress....