It is quite bizzare that if United Airlines set up an EU company for managing the maintenance of the part of their fleet which flies to the EU, they would apparently fall foul of this reg.
Who says? A maintenance subsidiary is not an operator. UA is a Part 121 operator resident in the USA.
Also AOPA UK has a bit of a history being in two minds whether to support N-regs or not. Go back say 5 years and they were very ambivalent. Unsuprising, given the large number of corporate (FTO) members. They came on board recently though.
That's not true. AOPA UK were 100% behind the N-reg operators in 2005 (7 years ago) when the DfT consultation in the UK proposed to ban them. This was before any inkling of EASA regs. They have since been 100% supportive. Why do you keep writing this stuff?
Peter 337 does not help by suggesting (posting the same posts across a number of forums) that all N reg operation is at an end when clearly it is not
He didn't post that. Conversely, your post is the one that does not help because it's a confusing muddle.
AOPA's across the EU should be helping N reg pilots with advice how to continue to fly. They aren't doing that as far as I can
see.
An AOPA member concerned that important advice is not being given to members should contact his AOPA. AOPA people are responsive and accessible in my view. In practice, there is little advice for AOPA to give. If you fly with an FAA IR in a derogation country you have until 2014 to get an EASA IR by whichever means are available.