After 5 months of waiting I received an email response from the CAA:
"The safety of all UK operators is taken very seriously by the CAA, and we have worked with industry to ensure that operators properly manage the use of contract pilots.
The safety performance of crew must be assured by the operators, and is closely monitored by the CAA as part of their oversight programmes. This applies whether a pilot is employed on a contract, as a direct entry type rated pilot or as a graduate of an Approved Training Organisation (ATO).
UK operator's Flight Time Limitations (FTL) schemes, are approved by the CAA and the monitoring of crew fatigue reporting trends also forms part of the CAA's routine oversight. As you may be aware, EASA-wide regulations on FTL are currently being developed. We are very much aware of the FAA’s new rules which, although they differ from EASA’s proposals on certain aspects, both have a similar approach, are based on scientific data, and achieve comparable levels of protection."
Just wondering what the "similar approach" was between FAA and EASA rules???
FAA decreasing FTL and EASA increasing!
The main crux of my email to them was why are we happy to continue with flexicrew/p2f when the FAA are increasing their ATP requirements to 1500 hours, with a little FTL thrown in.