Originally Posted by
IO540
There is no issue with prosecution, IMHO. The entire issue is whether insurance is valid.
Which of course is a question for the insurer, rather than any regulator.
However, it would also be surprising for the insurer to care in this instance, as a the status of the Crown dependencies is unclear in this particular respect and the pattern of behaviour affirms that a UK licence is 'the licence of the Country' with respect to operations in the Channel Islands.
OA32 - you are of course correct that my shorthand reference to the CI's as legal entities is not technically correct. However, the powers of the Crown Dependencies to act internationally seems quite limited and almost wholly assumed by the UK (with some approval processes). As such, the FAA likely regards them as dependencies operating under the overarching control of the UK with regard to international obligations.