Took a look at
srjumbo's pprune profile - he claims that he's an SFO on B747s, something that makes his irrational outpourings all the more puzzling. If he works for either BA or Virgin then he must be on a half decent salary, however if he was with EAT then he has my wholehearthed sympathy as I've been in the same situation myself. Of course it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that he's just another wind-up merchant!!
......EVEN the French will have NO right to arrest a pilot overflying France - as in the past.
I've never quite worked out how the French would know how old the Commander of an overflying aircraft was, after all there's no requirement to file that info on the flight plan or to show one's passport on reaching the FIR boundary.
The French continue to drive a coach and horses through various aspects of EU law that don't suit them, perhaps it's time we applied the same principle in respect of this issue. The real oddity in the French situation is that, prior to the introduction of JAR-FCL 1, the French age limit was 65!!!
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