What will UK CAA regs look like post Brexit?
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Central Scrutinizer - have you qualified post Jan 1st 2021? If not, did you consider the change of State of Licence issue process which could have provided an EASA Part-FCL licence with the opportunity to apply for a UK equivalent later this year?
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I have an IR and I'm still to finish my CPL (thanks to lockdowns). However, my ATO is EASA approved so I could theoretically apply for an EASA CPL/IR if an EASA Member State were to honour my APTL Theory and ME-IR done while the UK was still in EASA.
If your question is why I didn't SOLI Transfer last year, it's because I was about to finish the course and skill test in October. My plan was to finish and then transfer. I couldn't finish in time due to several weather delays, my skills test got cancelled 8 times due to weather! It's been a nightmare.
If your question is why I didn't SOLI Transfer last year, it's because I was about to finish the course and skill test in October. My plan was to finish and then transfer. I couldn't finish in time due to several weather delays, my skills test got cancelled 8 times due to weather! It's been a nightmare.
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Understood. Your TK credits should be valid for an EASA Part-FCL licence issue assuming they were completed prior to Dec 31st. As an EASA and a UK ATO, your training provider should give you the choice, surely?
Central Scrutinizer, a bit more woe to add to your current situation comes in the form of your IR flight test, if you're looking to gain an EASA IR rather than a UK IR. According to EASA regulation ORA.DTO.150, ‘Training in third countries’, IR training requires “acclimatisation flying in one of the Member States before the IR skill test is taken” and that the IR skill test “shall be taken in one of the Member States”. As the UK is no longer an EU/EASA Member State you can't now, according to the regulation, do your flight test in UK airspace, even though the UK remains a signatory to the Standardised European Rules of the Air (SERA).
UK ATOs can apply for an exemption from whichever Member State now holds their EASA approval (or with EASA if they are registered direct with the agency), but as the regulation is classed as 'hard law', any flexibility on the rules may not be forthcoming and enacting changes to hard law is a drawn-out process. IAOPA are apparently going to ask that the regulation is changed to read "shall be taken in airspace that conforms to SERA", but even if this was accepted then it won't happen overnight. And, to be frank, why would EASA or its Member States want to change the regulation when it will effectively amount to a loss of business? As you alluded to earlier, such agreements do not happen quickly and are generally done for political rather than practical reasons.
UK ATOs can apply for an exemption from whichever Member State now holds their EASA approval (or with EASA if they are registered direct with the agency), but as the regulation is classed as 'hard law', any flexibility on the rules may not be forthcoming and enacting changes to hard law is a drawn-out process. IAOPA are apparently going to ask that the regulation is changed to read "shall be taken in airspace that conforms to SERA", but even if this was accepted then it won't happen overnight. And, to be frank, why would EASA or its Member States want to change the regulation when it will effectively amount to a loss of business? As you alluded to earlier, such agreements do not happen quickly and are generally done for political rather than practical reasons.
The rule in ORA.ATO.150 applies to IR training done at third-country training organisations approved by EASA. This does not apply to CBM IR applicants, who hold a Part-FCL PPL or CPL and a valid ICAO Annex 1-compliant IR, who may be credited in full towards the relevant training course, in accordance with point Aa.8 in appendix 6 to Part-FCL.
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My understanding is that obtaining a CB IR is by definition training as required and testing for an instrument rating (IR). As such, ORA.ATO.150 para (2) does still apply. This is what the ATO I work part-time for has been told by the its overseeing Authority.
But I’d very glad to be proven wrong!
But I’d very glad to be proven wrong!
The possibility of being "credited in full" in point 8 of section Aa requires the applicant to have 50 hours under the IFR as PIC. There will be no course completion certificate in these circumstances making ORA.ATO.150 irrelevant.