Bookworm
I have a letter from EASA staing that they are going all out to get a bi lateral for FCL with the FAA to attach to the existing bi lateral already in place! Dual licensing not being the preferred option!
The conversion with ICAO licences from
IR to EASA IR with just a flight test and oral exam you posted would appear to show flexibility by EASA in that respect ( if it happens ? )
Austria already do not feel that such dual licence requirements are enforceable and with pilots who's jobs depend on this I doubt such requirements would stand scrutiny in a court of law regarding existing EU employment laws!
There most certainly was a joint meeting with the FAA last summer with the intention whether genuine of adding FCL to a bi lateral already in existence!
Remember too that the existing structure was only passed into law by reassurances given to MEPs who opposed that their concerns would not be concerns! If that was all a con trick only time will tell but the proposed conversion to an EASA IR from an ICAO IR sounds promising
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 2nd March 2013 at 19:36.