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Well, your license is issued and validated by the UK CAA, so if that's what the Americans put on the piggyback license, I don't think that would be incorrect.
In general I find Americans have a bit of trouble grasping the political situation over here anyway.
True.
However, the simple fact that a European licence issued by the political subdivision of France has different rules and restrictions that one from the UK and the fact that the aviation laws are materially different in each of the political subdivision of The State of Europe may cause the FAA to view each of these lesser entities as a separate State (ie. country), not withstanding the fact they are all part of a single state
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