Roofus
Take it a step further & you're now operating this vehicle as a Taxi in Ireland on American Plates......how would that be fair to all the Irish Taxi operators??
& yet an American Helicopter, an FAA PPL & away you go......
Who is it unfair to if a FAA PPL flies an N reg helo in Ireland?
As for protecting work, if a country wants to protect work for a particular group it can make a law to just that.
Should
aviation regulations be used to protect work?
It's certainly time that the IAA took hold of this problem by the short n curlies!
What problem?
B.