Bravo 73
"I suggest that you contact the JAA IR training providers for the past history of FAA conversion students"
"[Training in the US] ... you lose out in contacts and reputation back in the UK"
Wonder what those JAR IR training providers might say? Well, if they are British IR training providers, no doubt the frequency with which FAA (& other ICAO) IR conversions prove to be well short of the standard & need to fly extra hours. How ofen have I heard this of late? But only from people training in the UK and not from other European JAR IR providers. Know plenty of people who have done FAA IR conversions and who have done it in minimums; in other European countries. But, of course, their standards will be lower...
Similarly, why should training in the US mean a poorer reputation in the UK? There are plenty of badly and well-trained folk both sides of the pond. Why do so many British pilots think they are the standard-setters?
When I came to the UK from the States, I kept hearing much the same and how US-trained pilots couldn't navigate or were hopeless at RT. And what have I found: loads of UK-trained pilots who are crap at RT and can't navigate without a GPS.
The snobbery is tedious and weakly founded.
TT
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