Originally Posted by
richpea
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....
Richpea, you’re applying logic, that’ll never do!
No one thought through or in many cases had zero idea of the implications We can’t accept pilots, maintained parts or part 66 licences from EASA.
Operators who split fleets in an effort to manage the issues, managing frames with a G and EASA reg; Now because of ongoing logistics issues, where parts were regularly moved between frames, now it’s impossible, removing flexibility, adding time and cost, it can be done but it involves more bureaucracy and cost, not for safeties sake, it’s only for compliances’ sake. Companies like TUI, where in the past frames could be shifted anywhere within EASA land to support a program, this now can’t happen without a re-registration, the number of CofA’s to facilitate this, has gone through the roof.
Brexit truly keeps on giving.