Fighting on the wrong front?
I have that agree that the we need the IMCR or an EASA equivalent but all this thread seems to be focusing on is pilot licence issues, EASA is bigger than that!
Part M maintenance will be comming to an aircraft near you very shortly, the rules are changing by the day and reams of paperwork are having to be re-writen by engineering company's resulting in licenced engineers stuck in the office and not working in the hangar.
Who is going to pay for all of this pen-pushing?....................... the customer of course. There is little doubt that this part M will be pushing up the cost of maintenance and with supervising engineers having to spend so much time with the paperwork inspection standards will start fall due to time pressure.