I suppose it is only natural for those trained in the US of A to jump to the defence of their training environment, but I have to say from my experience of flying with many more than BEagles '2' students from the new country that I have to agree with him. The only 'good' UK-USA student is one who has been trained by a Brit. This is understandable, how can we expect a USA instructor who has never even visited the UK let alone flown here to train to our standards? The CAA in their wisdom 'allow' these schools to use local american instructors to teach UK students, without ANY form of standardistion, oh the schools say they do, but we all know they do not. The CAA need to act now and shut all these quasi-JAA approved schools down, but as we speak this is being considered, so perhaps I am being a bit hard on my masters...
Before any 'yankees' have a go, I do believe the standard of FAA teaching is suitable for flying in the USA, it is just not suitable for this country where we have a different approach to flying.
BEagle, I congradulate you (and WWW), 2 men with the backbone to say what they mean, and I say again, it is only those that trained in the USA that leap to the defence of that industry, without understanding that we are talking about European flying and standards, not USA standards where they pay scant regard to such things as airmanship or self-help.