Complience
I'm interested in this.
The CAA pre JAA, and for a while after it's introduction, always argued that even if the holder of a non-Uk or non-JAA licence holder had met the the requirements of UK/JAA in their previous training and subsequent testing then they the CAA were still required to satisfy themselves of the fact.
The way to do this was by knowledge examination and flight test.
I hear what the arguement is and i'm fascinated. Like so many things about JAR, what appears to be obvious is not.
I'm very aware of the cultural change required in ones thinking. Our thinking has always been, in the UK, to ask the question, can I? I'm always being reminded by the CAA these days, whenever I put to them the query; "I cannot find anywhere an answer to a question put to me of ..........! They reply that if it does not state that you cannot then take it that you can.
Is this arguement one of those?