Englishal - today, on the train, I picked up the current Pilot mag. In an article written by a young-20s aspiring JAA ATP, much p1ss is taken out of the JAA ATPL exams, how robotic the questions are, and how priceless is an unofficially circulating list of exam questions which "just happened to be remembered" by past students. It made me laugh, having read so many criticisms of the FAA IR ground school, and having done it myself recently. 85% after 6 months' revision, and almost every question was relevant to real flying.
We laugh about this a lot. One of my mates is a JAR boy ATPL as well as FAA CPL/IR holder. He can tell us the BS number of JAR approved sunglasses......which apparently is vital to flight safety. Maybe if I ever come to grief (hope not of course!) then the AAIB could blame my non JAR approved Oakley sunglasses
