The stupidity of these new EASA licences is endless. Listen. A certain large UK PLC operating a couple of private King Air 200's decided many years ago, for safety reasons, to operate them 2 crew with 2 fully rated pilots. Under CAA/JAR licencing this was fine and dandy. Along come EASA and say: " You cannot do that as the King Air is a single pilot certficated aircraft and you do not have a multi crew type rating on your ATPL". No dispensations are alowed so the pilots had to do a Multi crew type rating (HS125), get it endorsed on their licences in order to be legal to fly the King Air multi crew. A perfect Catch 22. If I had not been involved in their traning and heard it from the pilots I would not have believed it. To pay for all this BS the CAA have increased my AOC fees by 25% this year. No wonder I am loosing so much business to M registered charter aircraft that the CAA say do not exist.