The topic of the licence format came up at the FCL Implementation Forum - as did the question about cutting that ridiculous A4 sheet into manageable sections which might actually fit the pockets of the reduced-size licence.
Austria has decided to keep the traditional JAR-FCL sized licence and to have a much larger Ratings page.
The Irish would view a licence snipped into sections as 'defaced' and therefore invalid. So they plan to issue 8 x 2 page precut sections which
will fir into the reduced-size licence.
It's all so utterly ridiculous and symptomatic of an Authority which didn't think things through properly or even to market test the daft new CAA licence format. But then again virtually no-one in L&TS would recognise one end of an aeroplane from the other these days....
