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Old 11th Aug 2007, 23:02
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I suspect UK subjects would be viewed positively because they are at least has comprehensive as those in Australia
Having done both sets of exams JAA and AUS, I can say that the AUS were far more challenging, and more importantly relevant.

It makes me wonder as to under what basis it has been decided that the FAA ATP's are a croc and the JARs are the holy grail of aviation knowledge.

JAR exams. while daunting at the outset, require nothing more than a large amount of rote learning. All the questions word for word are on an online database . My lowest score was above 95% in all 14. I came nowhere near that in Oz.

So why they are universally lauded as being of a higher standard I dont know. They used to be but not now.

Handy to have though.
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