Originally Posted by
Brian Pern
S o you keep saying. The world is not fair, you choose EASA over CAA, it was your choice, I now realise your a Brit, by choosing EASA you pretty much locked yourself into Ryanair and no one else.
No one forced you.down this road, you pays your money and you.takes your pick.
You have a nice shinny jet job with the Irish Airline, if your a SFO, pretty good money, enough to give Alex a call at Bristol GS, get the exams done then license. I had to sit the FAA when I wanted my N reg, it's no different.
anyway I'm done debating with you, there is no point me continuing
Having said I was out, I'm going to have to come back to this specific comment, since you now want to specifically address my circumstances, which you assume you know. I had the choice of EASA or CAA forced on me through a combination of being locked down in a foreign country by COVID after taking one sitting of exams, needing to maintain my existing job in said country, and the fact that I had not budgeted for (nor could afford in the timeframe) to do double of everything, especially not in the UK. None of which I knew would happen when I started.
And you're correct, no one did force me down this road, I don't regret it. If I find myself needing to go and sit the UK ATPL exams, so be it, but my career plan will have diverged massively from what I expect to do, and I will have messed up royally, because I'm really not interested in staying in the UK any longer than I need to.
None of which changes my opinion, or the fact, that the way the CAA handles EASA license conversions is uneccessary, burdensome, and a waste of people's time and money.