These rules are clearly meant for pilots who stop flying and let their licenses expire. Not for those who keep working in other parts of the world.
My "own" CAA have never enforced these rules, all I had to do was show them my ME license and the IR/PC/OPC documentation, and my JAR license would be renewed.
I fell sorry for you UK guys, UK CAA are reading these rules like the devil is reading Al Quran!
The new EASA license will not have an expiry date, how will this affect you?
Last edited by ManaAdaSystem; 2nd Oct 2012 at 08:58.