My limited personal experience of all this is that we are being sold down the river by a bunch of burocratic f*****ts in the CAA who cannot even get their own story straight between themselves. None of them I have had dealings with have even bothered to talk to each other to get their story straight when the LAME calls and asks for any sort of guidance. The French have openly admitted they are having nothing to do with any of it and are prepared to simply pay the fines. The Germans are well confused and the Turks, well they are still confused. European unity, I think not. I am absolutely abhored that the pilots are given their JAA licenses after just reading a few paragraphs of".....I the bearer, promise to...." and we have to sit a whole bunch of questions ( at your expense of course ) that a 3rd year university mathematics and science student would cringe at ! WHY ? I for one will opt to stay overseas as long as I can and the CAA can keep their JAA licence ! Viva la A&P !