Watford, whilst you are quite well informed you do not have the full picture I am afraid. WMU would not be able to comply quickly with the JAR FCL requirement to having all their instructors JAA licensed as nearly all the UK instructors have left, all the american guys would need to study and gain a JAA licence, no mean feat. Things have not changed at Parafield, they still use the metropolitian fire service, around 5 mins response time. I must confess to not being up on the JAR requirement, maybe you can say whether this will pose a problem to BAe at Parafield?