Aren't the FAA tests just an A, B, C Question bank?
Learned by Rote
JAR is an A, B, C, D and there are a lot more of them, if you throw enough mud at the wall surely some will stick.
So that arguement doesn't really hold water.
But I am not here to knock the FAA system or even say that I am a better pilot, cause I probably amn't, and I have both FAA and JAA ATPLs
But you are missing my point, we all know that flying is not that difficult.
It sounds to me that some people here would be happy to see a test similar to getting a drivers licence. We don't have to know how the engine works to drive a car, we don't even have to know the breaking distance on a wet day at a given speed, so does that make it irrelevant?
Maybe it does, because it doesn't rain were I am and their is always a mechanic nearby so why should I have to worry about that?
How secure in your job would it make you feel, knowing that everybody can do and is doing what you are doing?
Would you still have the same passion for it?