Well BIGBADWOLF, You appear to have eaten too many little red riding hoods. You should get out of the office every now and then and take a look round. I have noticed a definite decrease in standards and more worrying still there are accidents related to maintenance that have occured recently involving fatalities. Ask the CAA..There is a definite errosion of standards going on probably due to many causes. The main one as far as I can see is lack of engineers and commercial pressures being applied to them. As far as the standards for the new JAR66 licences go I think it is too early to tell.I haven't converted mine yet so am unable to comment.