@idle stop
Under JAR-FCL we have a TP rating?! In some european countrys we have some national rules, but new on JAR - the company or development organisation is in charge for a specific training and skills of their pilots. OK a paper from one of the known TPS is right for the company, but no TP rating remarks on JAR licences.
I'm not shure if the mostly military guided and very expensive TPS program is right for the wide civil market. It's very good, but is it neccessary? Because of the raising costs for their training programs we will have in future nearly only retired military TPs. And that's not needed for the most civil and highly specialised developments. Why should a small civil development company hire an older retired military TP only for an Airforce TP degree and with small civil or special (software or sling load for example) experience? And how could get a younger highly civil educated engineer with civil flight licenses and no jet experience a degree from a TPS? How can a small development company pay the more than a half million bill, to train an own TP? Why we need for the certification from all additional stuff, including sling load systems a TP guided and flown test program? Thats to big cannons!
I'm an ex military helo driver and engineer but working now in the civil business.