[quote=unfazed;2953404]work by experts indicates that requirements based on the FAA instrument rating would not be acceptable for an instrument rating which gives access to class A airspace.
Once again a demonstration that anti-FAA/IR bigotry pervades the highest levels of aviation decision making over here - surprise, surprise!
As usual envy driven and based in imagined inadequacies of a busier system that works very well the majority of the time.
The real inadequacy here is on the part of the states who cannot provide an accessible alternative to the FAA/IR route.
The preponderance of N-registered aircraft in Europe is a symptom of a poor European system, not a disease in its own right.
I wonder how much this consultation and the time of the "experts" cost us?
SB