The training given by OBA is on behalf of SFT who hold the JAA approval. OBA are not approved in their own right. By the same token, the JAA training given by American Flyers, The Academy and UND is on behalf of OATS. None of these US schools can take JAA students unless they are sent by the UK school which holds the JAA approval. The UK schools are wholly responsible for compliance with JAR-FCL and have to provide their own CFI to oversee the operation.
There is no US flight school approved for JAA training at present.
The situation is fluid only inasmuch as the JAR committee are soon to meet and consider whether to allow JAA training to take place outside the JAA member states, hence the final paragraph of Watford's post in this thread. When that decision is taken, it will doubtless be posted here.
You are absolutely right to say that it is frustrating when people prefer to believe unsubstantiated rumour rather than the facts taken from the appropriate regulatory documentation. Watford has my sympathy.
[This message has been edited by rolling circle (edited 17 October 1999).]