At the risk of some slight thread drift why in principle could the CAA not take the same approach with the IMCR as the French have with their LNMA licence introduced to get around the maintenance regime for certain types of aircraft under part M.ie a local licence exercisable only within the borders of that country?As usual the French seem to have,under pressure from disgruntled citizens,managed to find a solution that "bends the rules" to inject some pragmatism into EU bureaucracy.
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