Apologies if posted already.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/Informa...ice2014200.pdf
Yet another complication for those of us holding EASA licences.
To save clicking on the link the crucial sentence is:
The purpose of this Information Notice (IN) is to advise that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) now interprets Part-FCL to mean that the take-offs and landings in the aeroplane that must be completed before a Type Rating is issued, must be carried out under the control of an Approved Training Organisation (ATO). The completion of the take-offs and landings is commonly referred to as ‘base training’.
Following discussions between EASA and the Member States, EASA undertook a review of the meaning of the requirements for base training. They concluded that the base training is part of the approved Type Rating course and therefore, according to Part-FCL, it must be completed under the control of an ATO. This clarification means that the previous UK practice of accepting base training with a Type Rating Instructor (TRI), completed independently of any training organisation, must cease.
2.4 According to EASA, base training may be conducted: by the ATO that provided the simulator-based Type Rating course; or by another ATO that is approved to provide at least the base training part of the Type Rating course for the type of aeroplane. In the latter case, there does not have to be any agreement, connection or contract between the two ATOs.
First the three year rule now this. Call me a conspiracy theorist but given the amount of business ATO's will gain from all of this can we assume they have been lobbying hard? Utterly frustrating.