I was told the IAA's problem with the FAA Class 3 medical was that the content of the medical examination was considered inadequate, and not in accordance with ICAO standards
This would be rich, if it were to come from the CAA, especially as the NPPL medical (and licence) has NOTHING to do with ICAO. Incidentally the JAR class 2 exceeds ICAO spec, by the CAAs own admission.
I fail to see how someone can not obtain a JAR Cl2, then go and get an NPPL sign off an fly EXACTLY the same aircraft, from exactly the same airfield, with EXACTLY the same number of pax, in EXACTLY the same flight conditions. The ECG is an expensive irrelevance, my mates dad had an ECG, due to chest pain, which proved absolutely normal. Next day he died from a massive heart attack (while watching Formula 1.....which is the reason we suspect he popped his cloggs, Schumacher was in the lead again).......
The European aviation system sometimes reminds me of the film Brazil
EA
(in a bad mood, becasue someone has just ripped me off for over a grand on eBay)
