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Old 14th December 2008 | 11:12
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IO540
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I've sent you an email, LH2, to your usual address. I don't think the PPL/IR position can be discussed publicly at this early stage. I am not an executive member there either. Also, for those who want to see more detail I recall that a number of specific items came up on the flyer.co.uk forum a while ago.

The FCL proposal is quite big and contains many many little items. I reckon any comments are going to be thinly spread; the only real "killer" is the crude stripping of foreign pilot license privileges and I know this will draw lots of comments but for obvious reasons all those who will comment on that bit are waiting for the OPS proposal to come out.

But most people will not read it because they won't have the time to read it.

The other thing is that if you already have a JAA PPL (true for the vast majority here) these will carry on, and looking at it purely selfishly there is no point in worrying about the LPL proposal. A large chunk of the FCL proposal is to do with the LPL (essentially a Euro-wide version of the UK NPPL) which is a bit of a mess but if the NPPL is anything to go by, almost the only people who will do the LPL will be those who cannot pass the JAA medical. I could be wrong though; the UK NPPL is severely crippled by being usable only in the UK whereas the LPL will be usable all over the EU, so it may actually become the default private license for EU pilots especially as flying GA outside the EU is fraught with so much hassle (airport/overflight permissions, avgas, crew Visas etc).
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