The US is beginning to look a sad place for light aviation these days,they were already way out of line with ICAO by insisting on issuing(albeit very painlessly)their own certificate on the basis of another ICAO licence.You should be able to fly anywhere in the world (day/VFR) on any valid ICAO licence.If this nonsense does not stop soon I think our authorities should withdraw the privelege of US licence holders to fly UK registered aircraft.This would also give our GA industry a much needed boost. Sadly the US is becoming very isolationist,it will be a long time before any of my earned cash migrates to the US in the form of aircraft rental as it has done in the past.I,ve left the EAA after many years of membership increasingly seeing the US as an introspective irrelevance to the rest of the world.