If I hold an FAA ATP and fly a business jet from which I earn my income and have legally done so for years I am protected in Law.
My Licence is the same as a US citizen. If discriminatory (which they are) laws are put into place which unfairly prejudice my ability to carry out my means of employment those laws can be challenged on a number of counts especially in the Eurpean Courts of human rights.
To say an American can fly in European airspace in a N reg aircraft on an FAA ATP But as a resident of Europe I am barred from doing so in the same aircraft with the same licences is without doubt PREJUDICE.
The fact that to convert that licence would cost me an awful lot of money and time is another issue.
The fact that the time required would take between 6 months and 2 years would mean that I would be unemployable for that period, would loose my job and legal livelyhood doing something which has been legal for decades and through no fault of my own.
If there are NO issues to answer in the European courts then what are ?
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 24th Sep 2010 at 14:59.