Does that mean that if
(1) I am currently "temporarily" medically unfit for a class 2
(2) I have a GP declaration
(3) I can thus fly with NPPL privileges on my CAA SEP licence and class rating
Yes. But you will not be permitted to use any other privileges until you regain a JAA Class 2 medical. As the forthcoming advice circular will make clear.
And ex-BBC person, if someone patronisingly writes:
You and others need to recognise that we are trying to reduce the barriers to entry / barriers to continuing flying, based on objective and proportionte risk principles.
then I don't feel it is necessary to conceal my many years of voluntary, unpaid work spent getting the NPPL 'airborne'.
We simply
DO NOT NEED a sub-ICAO 'EU' LPL (or rather, to roll over to the demands of the French). EU Member States who wish to do so should be permitted to make their own arrangements for sub-ICAO pilot licences in their own airspace - and the MDM032 recommendations should be binned in their entirity. If the French want to go on killing themselves with their ridiculous 'Brevet de Basse', then they should be permitted to do so - but
only in
French airspace!