Originally Posted by tmmorris
Presumably when we signed up to EASA we said we wouldn't do that sort of thing?
Tim
When "we" signed up to EASA we gave everything away. Airspace, aircrew licensing, maintenance and aircraft licensing - the lot.
Now, either because it is too difficult to manage or because it is expedient, EASA might be looking to delegate some of the low-level licensing (aircrew and aircraft) back to "national" bodies.
So it isn't a case of what we said we wouldn't do - we already gave that right away.
It is a case of limited opportunity on a local [national] level to do some things EASA don't want/need to do - Annex II aircraft ONLY as David Roberts alluded to above.
Hence the IMC rating is nearly dead: It is currently in a coma, but EASA have the life support machine's plug in their hand after "we" dropped it.