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Rumour has it that this NPA will include new regulation which will effectively ban EU residents from flying N reg aircraft in EASA land.

Jez

Various bodies have tried this countless times and failed. To attemp the above would breach discrimination laws and many others. You mention N reg but what about IOM?

I am not knowlegable on aviation law but listened to such a lawyer who described the impossible minefield that regulators would have to cross to achieve those aims so forget that it wont happen.

Pace

Hope you're right Pace, but how does the FAA get away with it then?

The FAA does allow foreign reg planes to be based in the USA, and I know of UK pilots who emigrated there, with their G-reg planes, and were OK.

IIRC, more recently, there are some TSA issues with this, along the lines of having to give notice for some flights. But I have no details.

Of course, nobody is going to be crazy enough to keep a G-reg in the USA indefinitely because they have to keep digging out a CAA LAME to sign it off, or an EASA 145 company. A huge waste of time.

And as regards licensing, the FAA practically hands you FAA licenses! You can either have a 61.75 PPL with the Foreign Pilot IR exam route, or you can use all your foreign training (no matter where done, who with, in what reg plane, in Mongolia, etc) towards FAA licenses.

The FAA is extremely generous.

EASA is hoping to sign a reciprocal treaty with the FAA but this presupposes the FAA allowing N-reg planes to be flown in the USA on EASA licenses - which will never happen. As I say above, the FAA effectively avoids this situation arising in the first place, by offering an extremely generous US-taxpayer-subsidised license conversion policy, but EASA pretends this doesn't exist and "only a reciprocal treaty will do". Typical idiotic dig your heels in Eurocrap, and IMHO there will be a humiliating climbdown.

Jez

Neither you or I are lawyers or understand the American legal system versus the European legal system. I would not even try to give reasons why.
All I know is that various countries have tried before and given up.

EASA is already in a shambles and appears to be yet another quango of people who dont know what they are doing as we already have found out.

Pace