It might potentially be part of a scheme on the part of EASA to shrink Annex II and get everything under it's own auspices? If so, I rather think it's doomed to failure.
Vested interests who will find this, as explained here, unacceptable:
- Military pilots who will be told that experience in, military aeroplanes isn't valid towards their post-retirement ATPL
- Test pilots, since all research aircraft are Annex II by definition, who can't maintain their licences (incidentally, the global test flying community is also up in arms about EASA proposals to create TP and FTE ratings which can only be on an EASA CPL/ATPL - which will suddenly make it impossible for many highly competent American TPs to work in Europe, or even say for an FAA qualified TP at Boeing to submit flight test reports to EASA).
- The tens of thousands of people across Europe who fly homebuilts or historic aircraft aircraft on JAA licences and intend to continue doing so whilst maintaining currency on those licences.
- The US based flying training industry currently providing training for JAA licences.
- Anybody with a non-EU ATPL wanting to convert to a European licence.
The whole thing will utterly inconvenience anybody not planning to spend their whole career flying European registered civil aeroplanes with CsofA. That is most of the pilots in Europe and many outside.
It is absolutely right that we all keep complaining, to ensure that these bonkers proposals get completely re-written. But they will and must be.
G