Peter wrote:

Clearly it is difficult to achieve an effective timed residence ban
such as that proposed (90 days every 365 days) while allowing visiting
aircraft, because one obvious work-around is for the pilot to swap
aircraft every 90 days. While obviously most private pilots aren't
going to purchase, or rent/lease from outside the UK, a different
N-reg plane every 90 days (i.e. 4 a year), a larger fractional
ownership operation could be structured so the planes are rotated via
other countries. A multinational business operating say 4 jets could
keep 3 outside the UK and rotate them every 90 days, thus meeting this
requirement. So the proposal would screw the small private pilot,
while leaving the larger turboprop/jet groups much less affected.


Why can't UK owners just park the airplane across the channel in france
for some portion of the year ? Surely there has to be a percentage of
time resident or similar requirement. So UK owners just lease to a flight
club across the channel for a few months of the year.