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That thread is at Flyer not PPRUNE
Yes the ultimate aim in years to come should be that licences are acceptable world wide either commercial or private but we are some way off achieving that goal and that will only arrive when the standards between FCL almost come together.
At this stage I accept that you cannot get a shortcut to say an EASA ATP by trundling over to the USA and picking up an FAA ATP then converting that with ease.
But there is no reason why the same FAA ATP cannot work on N reg FAA aircraft based in Europe by meeting safety based differences standards while at the same time giving authority to EASA to have some control and satisfaction or oversight that they are happy those pilots can fly to the same standards as their own EASA licenced pilots.
IE a differences exam and a flight test.
The same should be the case with FAA PPL IRs based in Europe.
They too should be able to take one differences exam and an IR flight test through an EASA examiner.
The USA have for a long time issued licences on the back of their UK licence rather than holding a standalone FAA licence.
I could see the same sort of arrangement where EASA privalages are allowed but based on the FAA licence and attached to that licence alone.
In that way the FAA ATP or PPL IR wanting a standalone EASA equivalent would have to run through the EASA training system to achieve it.
Albeit with allowances based on FAA licences and experience.
Really part of the problem is the lack of control that EASA feel they hold over FAA licenced pilots.
I support the already in existance system of excemptions renewable on an annual basis and could see excemptions used much more frequently in the coming years before we finally do have worldwide licencing.
Excemptions would give EASA the control and policing abilities over 3 rd country licence holders.
Misbehave and your excemption is not renewed.
These are the sort of areas I hope they discuss in a bilateral agreement in easing things forward to maybe world acceptance of licences and standards 10 years plus hence.
Someone has to start the move in that direction as the present system is antiquated, stupid, terratorial, expensive and plain daft.
The most unbelievable NON SENSE in a one world direction we seem to be moving in in so many other ways.
Pace