Dear fellow pilots,
I am a swiss lawyer, FAA CPL/IR pilot and owner of a Piper Comanche based in Geneva (N37HE).
Like thousands of European FAA pilots, we will loose the privileges of our FAA licenses and rating next April 8th 2015, due to new EASA rules voted by the European Parliament. This is very bad news.
With my best friend, an FAA CFII Flight Instructor, we had to come up with a solution.
There are actually only two ways around this problem:
1) The FAA pilots get corresponding European licences . This is a valid solution, but involves expensive procedures as well as annual training and tests. And it wouldn’t give anyway the right to fly under IFR a “N” aircraft in Europe with only a JAA valid licence…
2) A second solution is much simpler, and unsoppable: The EU Law stipulates that pilots don’t have to comply with the aforementioned restrictions if the operator of their flights is not based in Europe.
This is what we decided to provide: turnkey companies (one for each pilot) based in Morocco.
Those small companies will act as operators, preparing the flights (NOTAM, Met reports, PPR/slots, flight plans, etc.), assuming the liability of the aircraft’s maintenance and paying the flight expenses (landing taxes, handling, fuel, etc.) with the Moroccan bank account and credit card that we will provide.
In these conditions, three different Lawyers, some Specialists, professional pilots and two national aviation Authorities confirmed that if those operators are based out-EASA, the new restrictions for FAA licences will not be applicable.
We will be on the Cannes Air Show and will organize conferences across Europe from this Autumn, with our Specialists.
I invite you to visite our internet website for details.
Kind regards.
Greg
