Beagle, Do you have a link to CRD 01-06 please? I can't find it on the CAA Website.
My objections to this change are exactly as I said in the first post:
1. It sets up a different regime for people flying the same aircraft dependent on whether they hold an older (PPL) or newer (NPPL) licence
2. It adds cost for no demonstrated benefit
3. It adds a bureaucratic step on the entirely spurious grounds that although I've passed all of the exams and test to hold a pilots licence I'm too stupid to remember the revalidation requirements.
I accept that we can't back out of the NPPL , buit it now offers no advantage and a demonstrable financial disadvantage to a microlight pilot.
I strongly believe that anything that adds cost to our flying needs to be justified. Properly, with facts and figures - not just because I can put 'safety' in the sentence and because someone flying an old Gp A aircraft is envious of a shiny new metal / composite microlight.
It's disappointing that we put up with all of this bureaucratic rubbish just because we fly. I don't have to revalidate a driving licence every two years.