why not look at the real source of the matter??
that is the IAA!!! at least in this thread's subject matter.
do you think the americans are forcing the IAA to do something they don't want to do?
it may actually be more a matter of american aviation being in the !!!!es for so long, (president carter at the helm) that american pilots have been forced to look all over the world for jobs for quite some time now and are desparate enough to move further than other european pilots. in the US, if you don't work, it isn't long before you start sleeping outside under the trees. we don't have the social protection that most european countries have. so we soon get to the point to where we have to fly anywhere we can find a job.
but the fact is, the IAA, in this case, chooses to grant the validations.
i'm an american, and i have found it difficult to get a decent paying job in the US myself!!!
now that i'm in the UK, i seldom fly with UK first officers!!! funny that!!!
and the gaggle of brazilian pilots that you will now find everywhere---
when i was in korea, there were loads of mexican pilots flying for asiana!!!!
when i was in belgium, there were germans, english, irish, aussies, scots--the lot!!! and that is when they invented the JAA licence!!!
so once again, this thread is evidence of another short-sighted pilot, who has hit some hard times, and yet will not look far enough back in recent history to see that this difficulty is not new at all.
but after all is said and done, it is the respective country's Aviation Authority, and the individual companies.
not the language, nor the pilots.
Last edited by stator vane; 6th May 2007 at 18:40.