Is it time to ditch JAA?
Well they are at it again!
I read in the latest 'Flyer' that those nuts in Brussels are intending to reform the JAA regs again! Who knows what regs they will come up with next and what they will come up with as the requirements you have already spent a fortune to get. There are rumours that they are going to rehash the medical requiremets also!!!
I am now looking at taking my IR & ME rating. With all the changes that are going on I think I have more or less decided to forget JAA and go FAA.
Why?
Well JAA is a Eurpean licence, if you undertake the IMC rating you can only use it the UK(!), why pay all that money for something thats only of use in your own back yard? The FAA IR is roughly the same cost as the IMC but you end up with a full IR in the US and - as a bonus - you get given a IMC in the UK anyway. PLus you have done a hell of a lot more hours and do a much more stringent flight test - so you are going to be a safer pilot anyway.
On top of that the FAA licence is recognised n about 75% or the world, something the JAA is not.
Who knows how long before they make keeping your licence an impossibility unless you are a pilot by trade or have loads of dosh to go flying very regulary? Keeping the FAA licence is much simpler and cheaper!!
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