Originally Posted by
richpea
This would be great also for an (admittedly small) subset of British pilots who trained outside the UK but were unable to qualify in time to take advantage of the transition period to obtain UK CAA licenses without the financial, time and huge effort hit of having to retake basically the entirety of an ATPL licensing course. As one such person, the only benefit of the current situation that I can see is that the CAA get to charge me a large amount of money in exam and admin fees if I ever want to operate a G-reg aircraft commercially, despite the fact that I currently operate EASA reg aircraft commercially out of the UK.
Some people will bleat about how the CAA recognizing EASA licenses gives unfair advantage to Europeans holding them, but does it? Surely the control of labour should be through employment visas, not professional licenses. Any lack of enough British pilots to fill airline positions is almost entirely a result of the prohibitive cost of training in the UK to get a CAA license. The CAA being able to issue a like for like license on the basis of holding an EASA one would allow more Brits to train more cost effectively in Europe, then come back to work in the UK, without having to worry about the cost of "dual licensing" courses.
The UK currently has 4 fully funded schemes for cadets, which arguably provides the ultimate affordable route in to aviation.
Not a Brexit fan at all, but let’s not pretend that the tightening of pilot supply in the UK that it has caused (both through right to work and licensing) has done anything other than improve things for the vast majority of low hour or aspiring pilots in the UK.