Originally Posted by
richpea
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.
The rules for these qualifications vary hugely from one country to another: I know of a pharmacist whose qualifications were not accepted in one country but were perfectly acceptable in another (both being highly respected 'first world' countries). Similar happens with other professions. Life is like that.
Originally Posted by
richpea
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?
No, I never sat EASA ATPLs. Actually, the other ATPLs that I sat were more difficult than the CAA ATPLs that I subsequently sat. I don't "participate in [any] bureaucractic [[i]sic] waste of time and money", I chose carefully.
Originally Posted by
rudestuff
It's absurd that you can have two people flying an identical aircraft on the same day from LHR to JFK yet one requires a CAA licence and one an FAA certificate, simply because of where the aircraft is registered.
It has always been "absurd". Many thousands of people have just got on with it for many, many decades. I suggest that you learn to do so too.