The reason is that the bureaucracy and incompetents feel threatened by the
trend. It is my opinion that people go the N-registered route so as not to
have to deal with the bozos who have gone so far as to tell UK pilots what
airplanes they are skilled enough to fly, and that they are doing it to
protect them.

I would hope that the CAA nor the DFT gets their way on this. There should
be plenty of comments from N-reg owners filed in response this, pointing out
that the problem is with the useless bureaucracy, not with the owners.

"Peter" wrote in message
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The UK Department for Transport has published a consultation document;
their aim is as stated above.

This would be extremely bad news for practically all U.S. registered
pilots based in the UK.

It would also be bad news for the American GA aircraft market, which
would get flooded with aeroplanes forcibly sold from the UK. Many
aeroplanes have FAA approved features which are not European approved.
These would have to be removed, or the aircraft sold.

Cirrus SR22 (arguably the best U.S. GA success story) would also be
evicted from the UK, as would the TBM700C2 and other types.


Peter.
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