Ladies/Gentleman,
I guess I have been completely wrong for many many years if this is and have been happening. When I convalidated my european/ICAO issued ATLP into JAA-FCL paper about 4years ago, at least then, by signing the application I also promised NOT to apply for an other JAR ATPL in any other JAA country, since you do not need to do it nor you are allowed to do it. That was one of the main goals of the entire idea! Has that regulation changed?
We have guys flying with at least UK, Swedish, German and Finnish issued licences. We are not UK based, but most of the guys signing our licences are UK approved TRE's and they do sign all the papers and most of the times everything is going fairly smoothly. Of course, not always...
Last fall in Brazil I run into interesting situation w/ this licencing thing. After arriving into our initial destination, we still had a couple of legs within Brazil and for that we needed a " waiver". For the issue of such a document we needed to present all the relevant documents. The problem began when local CAA officer noted that the F/O had UK CAA CPL and he was flying with an other european country registrated a/c. It took us more that 2 hrs to solve the situation. When I was initially trying to explain him the system of JAA-FCL he first looked at me like I would be completely out of my mind. Luckly my Spanish skills helped me a bit, while same amount of Portugese would have helped greatly...
