IO540,
Why mention N reg?
Why do you wish to restrict debate about a law that applies to almost every registration you can think of to one particular registration?
(let's face it, Joe Public cannot spell "Certificate of Airworthiness" let alone tell you what it is)
Very true. My bicycle riding child has no idea what an MOT is or why certain cars are requird to have one. That does not change the fact that the MOT is designed to provide them with some small protection from unroadworthy vehicles. A vehicle imported into the country which never undergoes a UK MOT may be perfectly safe or it may not.
Why do you think we need draconian restrictions?
Can we not simply have a system whereby the CAA;
a) Requires all non European registered aircraft based in the UK to register that fact with them; and
b) To continue the current system of permitting ICAO licence holders to fly G registered aircraft bu to require them to obtain a validation first.
If for nothing eles, the CAA can tell when the number of non-European PPLs exceed the number of UK licensed pilots and they can transfer the phones over to Tehran since I bet pleant of the licence holder will be licensed there...PPL for US$1000 anyone?
I always laugh when I see the British Gent who supports the British Motor industry by purchasing an expensive car at a greatly inflated price from a UK dealer despite a big saving on the same car available elsewhere in Europe but then drives to the airfield where they use their non UK pilot licence to fly a non-UK aircraft on business for which they claim against their UK tax!!
They are the one who will moan about asylum seekers, and jonny foreigner taking UK jobs. They support the clamping shut of the borders.......but not so tight that they can't get their foreign registered, foreign licensed and foreign maintained aircraft to and from the UK with their foreign licence.
Love it!
DFC