The channel certainly seems very wide.
I am really getting sick of this pissing and moaning from you British.
Nobody on this side of the ocean is just "given" a licence.
I was a fully licenced and qualified airframe/powerplant/avionics before JAR and I now have a JAR66 B1/B2.
So I have nothing more and nothing less than before JAR.
Except perhaps now my licence is recognized around Europe, and maybe even in Britain too.
But I wouldnt be too worried about us Europeans taking your jobs. Who in their right minds would hire us under-qualified guys with licences from a vending machine, when their have all of these superior local boys.
Techman