Originally Posted by
NoelEvans
Stop being so 'precious'!
There are many, many professions where moving from one country to another requires even more than just sitting a few exams! Depending on the country, I know of nurses, pharmacists, accountants and lawyers who face huge retraining and exams to be accepted in another country. If you want to move to another country for a job, just do what is required in that country and quit moaning about it! (I feel that I am entitled to say just that having sat the full ATPL exams in two different countries. I just got on and did it!)
But there are also many many countries that recognize qualifications across borders and that helps to facilitate both ease of recruiting workers and opens up beneficial training opportunities. With reference to pharmacists, accountants and lawyers... of course you need to retrain to work in other countries, regulatory and legal frameworks for those professions vary widely country by country.... when it comes to nurses and doctors, the same applies, and in most cases it is nurses coming from countries with lower standards of training that need to prove they can operate in more highly regulated jurisdictions. Aviation is deliberately not like this... it is the point of ICAO and the SARPS, because aviation is by nature an international endeavour. But having sat both (I assume) EASA and CAA ATPLS, you tell me... can you spot the massive difference in standards and regulations that demand that you needed to prove to two different regulators that you can operate under their (presumably) massively different standards and norms? Or did you just participate in a bureaucractic waste of time and money?
For reference, I have an airline job, based in the UK... I don't need to do anything to get a job, I have one. I just think its absurd that the CAA take the position they do, it helps no one.