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.
Well, I can show you how certain Swiss helicopter companies, with help of FOCA, pushed thru significant EASA legislation changes in Helicopter OPS that suited them and were, effectivelly, a step back from long term EASA policy. Switzerland is, as you know, not EU country, but is in EFTA and thus can use EASA regulations with mutual recognition. On paper, FOCA does not have the right to vote on EASA matters, in reality, they pushed thru what they wanted.
UK CAA principles were taken into EASA rules in many ways and am sure that it would be listened carefully in Cologne, if being on same status as Switzerland, Norway or Iceland. Formal decisionmaking maybe no, but influence definitively yes - and that matters.