Originally Posted by
unfazed
B2N2
You are right about the farmyard door....what I would like to see is the door closed nice and firmly so that JAA instructors are protected as well as FAA
Seems fairer to me
Unfazed
I'm sorry, but as far as I see it, the regulatory playing field is more than level in the JAA Instructors' favour
- any JAA instructor in the UK can train a pilot for any FAA qualification, in some cases
more easily than they can train then for a JAA one, eg you could train a student towards the FAA IR without any of the JAA paraphenalia of FTO approvals and course approvals etc. The only thing you can't do is sign them off for a checkride or sign off an endorsement (like the BFR). The FAA accept ICAO Instructors as 'authorised instructors' for all of the flight instruction required for FAA licenses and ratings (barring the odd hour here and there).
- an FAA instructor can only train someone for JAA ratings in the very special circumstances of being part of a CAA approved school in the US
So, for 99% of FAA Instructors (ie. those not in the Florida CAA approved schools) the JAA is much more protectionist. The FAA allows people to come and take checkrides in the US based on training done by JAA instructors. It does not work vice-versa.
Similarly, a group of JAA CFIs in the UK could work with an FAA CFI and FAA DPE in the UK and train people towards any FAA rating just as FAA instructors work under the supervision of a JAA CFI and have students tested by a JAA examiner - but the UK lot wouldnt need all of the FTO approvals the JAA demand.
Additionally, the JAA Instructor is protected by the barriers of bureaucracy and involved in getting advanced JAA licenses and ratings. An FAA CPL-CFI would face 10x the cost and time and work to convert to the JAA licenses than a JAA Instructor would face in getting the FAA equivalents.
It's not clear to me that there is any JAA training that takes place in the US whose "mirror image" of FAA training in the UK wouldn't be easier to organise and accomplish.
The real problem is that the US has a fabulous infrastructure of airports and a comparatively wonderful regulatory environment. This is an "unfair" advantage.
rgds
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