Well I'm reading on here, and clearly the boss will have to fork out for all the bollocks of me filling in the endless paperwork to go to USA to get an FAA CPL, just so he can pay me a salary to fly alongside him, even though it adds nothing to my ability as a pilot (leaving aside FAA v JAR squabbles) and even though in reality the job where I will earn my salary is managing his yacht. But in this instance what seems even more absurd to me is that the boss himself flies LHS with an FAA PPL/IR! So the captain can fly on a PPL, but not the FO (even though he has a CPL but just from a different regime). All a bit daft IMO.