Global global, if your friends were academic enough we wouldn’t have the disaster of EASA FTL as they would have seen the fundamental flaws.The ECA quote that a number of EU states didn’t even have a set of FTL regulations until recently, the UK CAA having led the way in this field for decades.
A lot of clever people wanted to discuss the fatigue problems of EASA FTL
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/wak...pilot-fatigue/
Isn’t it strange to you that a country that had a fatal accident caused by fatigue is going in the opposite direction to your beloved EASA. ?