As an ex chief CFI for a US company that trained mainly european students (mostly British), I must agree with BEagle. They delighted in showing me their study books and in telling me how much more they had to learn in merry old England.But they were here. When I arrived,some thought I was the new secretary (I am female) It took 2 months to be accepted, answering silly questions that I knew the answers to. Some arguments were taken to the FAA to resolve, even though I showed them in the regs or manuals. Yes those Brits are full of themselves. The basic idea in airplanes is "push forward, the houses get bigger, pull back the houses get smaller, pull too far back they get bigger real fast" One does not need to know how every valve and circuit operates to be a good pilot just as one does not need to know about LAN and WAN and server technology to use a computer.
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eX-Chief CFI, X-ATC,AVN map maker,F