I will send your positivity about Easa FTL to some academics I know who think the scheme is fundamentally flawed and dangerous. I need to find a joke for them for April the 1st
Please let the people at the DLR in Germany, NLR in the Netherlands and ENAC in France among others share your "experience" as they are apparently not academic enough for your pals at the al knowing CAA...
The good thing about the EASA process for UK CAA in the last few years was actually that they got of their "we know all as we are the CAA" high horse and had to prove a lot of their subjective thoughts to their European counter parts... Now that was a painful process for all authorities including yours but the result is an agency build on competency rather than on "we have done it always like that"
Perfect? No.. Better than the old CAA? Yes!!