AOPA UK is not directly represented on FCL.008; representation is made through the IAOPA representative.
I certainly will 'endlessly snipe', as you put it, at Thorpe's utterly absurd pet hobby-horse, the 'EIR'. He cannot be unaware that the 'EIR' concept has been lambasted over recent months and that no-one supports it. Yet he continues to push the absurdity of the 'EIR' through FCL.008 with neo-evangelical zeal.
You will have to wait and see whether AOPA UK's efforts to change FCL.008's thinking on the IMCR situation will bear fruit - but work is ongoing as I write....
Last edited by BEagle; 8th Nov 2009 at 14:59.