Karel Abbenes posted in General Aviation
BASA agreement entering into force June 20th 2021
Some countries have already postponed the introduction (for the last time) to June 20th 2022. I was wondering whether the consequences are clear to all N registered plane owners and pilots in the EU.
Questions remain for some owners:
- Is the maintenance of the N registered aircraft based in the EU governed by the FAA rules and regulations or by EASA rules?
- Is it permitted to fly an N registered aircraft based in the EU with a FAA certificate with a Class 3 medical and a LAPL (A) with a LAPL medical in the EU? I assume a Basic Med is not an option?
- Can you fly the N aircraft based in the EU to the UK with a LAPL medical?
- Are the same rules for maintenance and LAPL licence and medical applicable for G registered aircraft?
Hello Karel,
Do you know what countries postponed the introduction to the BASA?
Sorry I do not. Surely EASA will know. In the Netherlands we are considering postponing to June 20th 2022.
N-reg maintenance, for private i.e. Part 91 operations, remains to FAA standards i.e. Part 91.
Whether the LAPL meets FAR 61.3 has not been clarified explicitly by the FAA but reading the following it looks like it is acceptable
euroga. org/forums/hangar-talk/1211-lapl-uk-nppl-and-n-reg.
Regarding flying to the UK with an LAPL medical, do you mean with an FAA PPL, no FAA medical, and an EASA LAPL medical? I think probably not because you need the FAA license+medical to go outside the airspace of your license issuer (FAR 61.3).
Regarding the BASA, I don't think anything changes regarding N-reg aircraft whose operator is EU based.
Brussels introduced the requirement in 2011 for the pilots to have duplicate (EASA as well as FAA required by the US) licenses, but most countries derogated from this every year ever since.
Some did not, and I think those were mostly countries which don't read the thousands of pages of EASA regulations :)
The BASA treaty has been discussed on EuroGA extensively and it seems to provide some new routes for license conversion, but nothing really relevant. You still need the duplicated EASA papers (license and medical). More here:
euroga. org/forums/hangar-talk/3439-easa-faa-bilateral-pilot-licensing-treaty-basa/post/266374#266374
BasicMED is not applicable outside the US. See here
euroga. org/forums/hangar-talk/2107-basicmed-faa-private-pilot-medical-abolished-not-useful-outside-the-us
For UK pilots reading this, the UK CAA has for the past few years been derogating using Forms SRG2140 and SRG2142 and they have said in recent "brexit changes" videos that nothing is changing on N-reg policy.
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