The Agency intends to make it illegal for pilots domiciled in Europe to fly perrmanently in Europe on American licenses,
Have these people nothing better to do?
What about the ICAO principle that one flies an ICAO-registered aircraft using a matching ICAO licence anywhere in the world...
Are European regulators going to insist, for example, on current EASA type ratings for European-based N-reg aircraft that do not need type ratings within the FAA system?
Are the same regulators going to somehow insist that a valid FAA instrument rating (where validity is based on currency - how sensible) is somehow negated because one's EASA instrument rating happens to have gone out currency because one has not done an annual flight test (presumably not allowed in an 'N' reg aircraft)? (same logic applies to type rating...)
This could become a fiasco of monumental proportions that will waste lots of time & money, do nothing for flight safety, but create lots of paper, jobs & conferences.
Utter Bollox