Presumably the fact that this letter was written about 10 days after my post is co-incidental, but it would be nice to think that PPrune is that influentual.
As I understand it the executive summary is "no change, until EASA actually make their mind up what they want".
Also I note that nothing in EASA's existence has yet caused the "plain english campaign" to make their presence known at Gatwick yet, although I've seen worse.
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