I for one do not have the faintest idea what can be done to turn back the clock and throw off these shackles. I'm very fed up with the current situation. Yours, frustrated of UK.
You're lucky enough to live in the West-Midlands. Contact Philip Bradbourn or Mike Nattrass, both MEP's on the EP transport committee and tell them they should
- Reject the current EASA / Commission draft measure through a resolution for objection - they need to talk to the rapporteur, Said El Khadraoui (labour, BEL), who is well aware of the situation, to get this done.
- Talk to Philip Hammond about the pending regulatory mishap and what a mess the Commission (including recently appointed UK director Mike Baldwin) is making of things and how the Commission is deliberately deceiving the European Parliament deliberately confusing mutual licence recognition issues and equating private flying (as a proper means of individual transport) with recreational flying and sightseeing.
- Ask the Commission to redo their homework properly, so that a uniform licensing system can be implemented without affecting flying privileges that have existed for decades. "Grandfathering" springs to mind.
- Demand from the Commission to conduct further proceedings in a transparent and non-disruptive manner, with clear communications and without hidden agendas, so that everyone involved in the process can be made accountable for their actions and so that future personal conflicts of interest can be avoided in the legislative process
- Demand from the Commission to temporarily suspend Article 70 from the basic regulation (216/2008) to buy time for clarification and implementation.
Don't wait. Get on the phone or behind your laptop and do it now...
...you may have to fight them on the beaches, but it'll be your finest hour !
PP.