JAA = (your)money
Which is why all JAA FTO's in the US charge pretty much JAA prices - $400+ / hr for ME IR training at one particular establishment, which is done in US skies, and therefor FAA IR training in my book, not that there is anything wrong with that....though at $220 per hour.
UKFT don't have the CAA approval, for the simple fact that it costs them £5000 per year, for essentially a jolly for the inspector, but they can carry out *some* UK training, for example IMC or licence conversion (ICAO/FAA to JAA).......by virtue of the fact that they have a UK examiner there.......just what I heard on the grapevine.
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