I'm still unsure what my best course of action is? I have a non expiring old UK PPL A, which I guess will become redundant except as a national licence in 2012, but this bit from the CAA site about EASA licences makes me unsure?
UK pilots with ICAO-compliant national aeroplane and helicopter licences should continue to be able to exercise the privileges of those licences in UK-registered EASA aircraft until some specified date after Part-FCL becomes mandatory;
Should I apply for a JAR/EASA licence now and run it alongside my UK licence (which I don't wish to surrender), or wait and see what happens? Is it likely that by doing so I will have to jump through more hoops later in order to continue to fly with the privileges I have now?
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