I find it amazing that any FAA IR people are allowed to land at Heathrow at all if what one hears is correct.
Mavbe there should be a change in international law!
Most of this stuff is about vested interest dressed up as safety and has nothing to do with the accident rates for FAA IR vs JAA IR trained people....
The schools in the UK would say that.. if ICAO IRs issued in the US were directly tranferable into a JAA IR they would be out of work....