As a 14,000 hours plus guy, I'm now being told that under EASA rules, my CAA/JAR ATPL(H) which I've held since 1976 can only be converted and re-issued as a CPL. (plus a couple of hundred pounds and 50 hours in a twin) ) Not that I care too much being on the verge of full retirement, but how's that for idiocy. Dennis K.
DennisK
i don't know if I'm seeing it wrongly or if i don't understand your statement, but on Article 4 of EC 1178/2011
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http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:311:0001:0193
N:PDF page 3)
it says:
1. JAR-compliant licences issued or recognised by a Member State before 8 April 2012 shall be deemed to have been issued in accordance with this Regulation. Member States shall replace these licences with licences complying with the format laid down in Part-ARA by 8 April 2017 at the latest.
so, if one has a licence issued by a national authority, according the national legislation (copy/translated/transfer of JAR FCL), should have "automatically" the new EASA license(or what they call now)
i'm reading wrongly or is somewhere written a different thing...
seems there is already an "ammendment" called EC 290/2012, but it seems that on this matter only changes effective dates
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:100:0001:0056N:PDF
regards