90 days window to renew your type rating under EASA?

[Clandestino]

I live, work and am licensed in country that is supposed to be part of the EU therefore our CAA is supposedly EASA aligned. Recently we discovered that they have imposed 90 days window for type rating renewals - if you perform OPC 1 day after expiry or more than 91 days before, it will not be acceptable to authorities and you have wasted your effort. Our OPC usually last up to six weeks in spring and autumn and we usually don't have enough TRIs to run checks and sim training in parallel so on first regular OPC after TR we used to renew the rating so to be in step with the rest of the gang. Besides, given the precarious state of our beloved company, everyone started renewing TR on every check, we just can't tell when the last one will come and six months extra on TR can make quite a difference. Now we can't do it anymore.

What I wonder is whether this is the same all across the EASAland or we turned out to be unique once again?

[Natstrackalpha]

Where are you living? SP?
Its the same in the UK, for every licence, and rating. you cannot blame your nation`s CAA - blame EASA, they started this ***t!

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In these days of ecology, sutainable development, we now have forms up to 7 pages long to fill in. It is truly form City.
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The amount of trees they will have to cut down to furnish all this lot of nonesense is unbelieveable. But, hey, why should they care about trees, they are EASA?!

In the olden times when there was just our beloved CAA - or even JAR, there was one form - on it, there was a choice of licence application, simply tick the box, fill your name and address in, fill in the wonga sheet and send it off. With refno, they handled everything, bang, done.
2 - 3 weeks later depending on the time of year, your licence came sailing in.>
Not any more! So, whose bright idea was it to go into Europe. Whose bright idea was it not to come out of Europe?
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Each european country had its own little national CAA - any country in the EU - they had jurisdiction over their own fellow women and men. Now, however, the have jusrisdiction over nothing, they have no say, except to recommend policies - whereas EASA "DETERMINE" policy, whether we like it or not . . . ." . . and, tomorrow, the world . . !!"

[Don_Apron]

Nats

Agree with your post in it's entirety.

No BS would surprise me coming out of EASA.

After all they wanted crews to operate under conditions, that setup extreme fatigue, for e.g.

This and all the rest of the garbage that comes from Europe, was prophesied and will get far worse.