Hi Beaver
I'm posting because I have met too many pilots of third-country aircraft who have their head in the sand over this and as a result are all too ready to believe what a stranger says on a forum based on private emails which haven't been published rather than reading and understand what the regs say. That's largely because they don't like what the regs say and so it is much more convenient for them to believe something else.
When they get ramped or have an accident are the inspectors going to refer to unpublished emails or to what is written in the regulations?
I'll bow out now as I've said my piece. I really do hope that things work out in your favour. In the meantime I will keep working with the rules as they are written.