Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Flying in Russia was (still) includes some of the most regulated professions there and basic flying training was far above some western standards. ?
That is simply not true( I mean, the second part of your statement). There is nothing useful if out of all western standards, you are above only 2 of them...(and only nominally and only on paper).
When you look at normalized statistics of crashes (aka the reality), you can clearly see who has better training standards. Just saying