Re: EASA proposal on booting out FAA licensed pilots from Europe

"Robert M. Gary" <N7093v@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>So most American airline pilots probably don't meet the ATP
>requirements of the JAR either. Does that mean American flag carriers
>can't fly in Europe?

That is OK because they are "genuine foreigners" and those will always
be OK.

As an international traveller, ICAO protects your rights. You have an
ICAO PPL, an ICAO IR, an ICAO medical (the FAA medicals, incl the
Class 1, are ICAO compliant but "with differences filed" to eliminate
some silly stuff like the audiogram) and if the plane is registered in
the same country as the one which issued the paperwork, you can fly
anywhere.

The EASA move will hit pilots flying under U.S. paperwork in Europe IF
they are somehow ("how" is not currently defined) connected with
Europe. This could be citizen****p, residence, taxpayer status, or
perhaps other stuff.

Citizen****p could be fun if say a UK citizen is an ATP working for
Continental, flying into Europe :) That one could be dealt with by
exempting AOC operations.

The sh*t is yet to fully hit the fan on this proposal and no doubt
they will amend it according to political expediency.

The proposal on hitting N-reg *airframes* is yet to come out. That one
has been tried a few times in Europe already, and dropped. I have an
idea or two of what they might do...

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