Look on the bright side, if you had say the DC3, DC4, DC6 etc on your CAA licence, you would of had to jump through all the hoops and things to get an EASA licence to find that a year or so further on that EASA in an about turn would decide these would now go back onto your National CAA issued licence!!!
Of course, as your EASA licence is not renewed for 5 years they will still appear on your licence, as will a lot of other things since removed or the limitations removed and the type shuffled around in the listings into groups.....
So you now have a licence showing aircraft not actually still on it or even limitations on certain aircraft that are now in groups you hold giving you full coverage under the group even though it appears you have a limitation on the type, which you no longer have!..... what is printed on my licence is fiction to what I actually hold and even then if I get asked to fix XYZ I need to trawl through the web to see if this week I am still cleared to sign it off.
To compound the issue, think of companies operating the likes of the DC3 having had to go through the grief and expense of getting full EASA 145 approvals to find the aircraft then going back to the CAA Approvals they previously held!!!!!!
At least they have taken steps to rectify the stupid system where your EASA licence was valid for 5 years but your accompanying CAA one (Issued free) reduced to only for 2 years, it has since gone back to 5 years the last time I checked, shame it now still throws it out of sequence with my EASA one.......suppose to have originally done both at once thus saving costs and postage would have been too simple.
