American pilots are not being discriminated against in anyway. Just Europeans that happened to have chosen the USA as a flag of convenience are being brought into line with the those operating under the normal regulations.
European pilots who legitimately hold FAA licences are being discriminated against big time.
Bose lets talk the truth.
This will cost many FAA licence holders a fortune. There are 10000 FAA licence holders in Europe who have been forced to take that route as the European regulations are so unfriendly towards GA.
EASA could quite happily have put a European PPL IR into place based on the FAA system and the problem would have vapourised.
FAA has been in Europe for decades, pilots have and do run careers under FAA and one legal friend even thinks there is a possibility of suing EASA for those costs. The practice has been inground in our history through time and these pilots will be financially damaged through no fault of their own. The damage is purely through the bully boy tactics of EASA.
EASA wanted a way to get rid of N reg based in Europe.
Their best call was to find evidence that EASA licences were safer and as such they could claim that EASA licences were required on a safety basis.
Quangos, research groups infact could not find that evidence.
Surprisingly Part 135 ops are safer than the equivalent AOC ops although less regulated. regarding jets! private jet ops have also come out to be safer than the strictly controlled and expensive to run AOC OPS.
EASA has chosen to work against aviation with their burocratic nonsense and are damaging a lot of people as well as European aviation in the process for no sensible reason and piling huge costs onto our industry through their actions.
I do hope that AOPA find lots of legal faults in what they are attempting to do as absolutely nothing positive has come from EASA. They should have been disbanded last time.
ALL REGULATIONS should be based on one thing only and thats safety sadly they are NOT and that is where EASA is wrong.
Pace