When a student turns up at OAT's door in Oxfordshire having completed the FAA CPL/IR and wishing to convert, they are probably sneered at through the teeth. Yet when it suits OAT they encompass their training in the US. Double standards for sure.
There are many graduates from the US that can no doubt fly better than there OAT equivalents. Simply because they focused on flight training whereas OAT harnesses all of the students with a degree of political fear and JAA draconian bureacracy, too much distraction and not enough flying...
