my second year DOES NOT now count as a flight with an instructor unless the gent is a also JAA instructor
I think lady JAA instructors are allowed too!
I had hoped to do a local french pilot's JAA 'hour' last year (he's UK resident flying on a French PPL) - the French CAA refused, saying it must be a French instructor, and when he tried to convince them they said they would agree providing he agreed that they restricted his licence as 'only valid in G registered aircraft'.
He went back to France for a day.