Best to find a different syndicate.

I know of a number of people in these and most of them are having various "issues".

You are having "issues" even before getting started, and believe me it isn't going to get any easier when you have such dominant/dominating members in there already.

I'd take a walk.

The rules about this sort of thing are very straight forward. You can fly an aircraft under a licence issued by the state you are in or the state of registration of the aircraft.

So a G reg aircraft in British airspace needs a UK/JAR licence. With a US licence you can only fly an N reg aircraft in the UK.

You can ask for an exemption on a case by case basis as you've ben told.

Oh dear...........

oh dear, oh dear....

They are reasonably straight forward (so long as the country of operation has not filed a difference). However, your summary has very little to do with the rules.