Btw: dual licensing is only necessary for the "wrongly" domiciled pilots, so one movement to seriously consider is moving your home to the country of your license. If you frequently fly a N-reg aircraft and do hold a FAA PPL, why not move completely to the US and pay your taxes there? If more pilots would plan and do this, guess how fast regs will change ..
But that reflects the very argument! Why are there so many N reg private aircraft flown by PPLs in Europe.
Simply cost and time to achieve licenses for working people who may have family or heavy work commitments.
It has been shown that the N reg pilots with IRs are safer than those trying to fly VFR in minimal conditions
So again its the market place argument
Had EASA offered a practical cost effective PPL IR in the first place there would not be so many N reg in Europe
This is a failing in the European system not the pilots who moved to N reg which was perfectly legal for them to do.
Why should they have to meet the huge costs in time and money for something they are innocent of ?
Pace