Originally Posted by
NEDude
Oh, and if you go through Germany, be aware that German privacy laws prohibit the sharing of medical information. What that means is if you have a German license and need to change your state of license issue to another country, it will be difficult. Any EASA license can operate any EASA registry, so in most cases it will not matter. But there are a few airlines which require you to change your license over to their country to make the LPC paperwork easier. EasyJet is one such airline.
Feel free to ask if you have more questions.
Germany to UK CAA is currently not possible for pilots that had their license in germany for quite some time. For new licenses it should work in theory. Reason is that the CAA requires a complete medical history of the last five years, which the LBA can't provide as it doesn't have the data. Providing the history yourself is not accepted by the CAA. Rules have changed though and most if not all of the medical data is now transfered to the LBA (german CAA) with newer medicals as far as i know.
However, the german CAA scored second to last one on a test of how well they follow EASA rules done by EASA, just before Greece. Not a good CAA to work with.
Anyway, Easyjet is just in the process of hiring about 330 german license holders without the requirement to change them to UK ones, and will employ all mainland europe pilots (except switzerland of course) in an european AOC anyway as the UK one will not fall under EASA regulations anymore post-BREXIT.