The reasons why I'm not returning to my JAA-compliant place of birth:
- Bad weather
- Exorbitant taxes
- Naff rules
- Public antipathy bordering on hatred of helicopters and those who fly them
I suspect much the same factors would be listed by most Brits flying overseas.
JAA is a blessing, and shouldn't be constantly mocked on here by those who havn't done it!!
Which is why British helicopter manufacturers are supplying the world with aircraft, British flight schools are inundated with foreign students clamouring to be trained under JARs, and the rest of the world is looking to JAA as a model of how civil aviation should be regulated, I suppose.