25th October 2008 23:25pilotwhiteQuote:
FAA is a joke compared to JAA
don't you mean JAA is a joke compared to FAA ?
I have to second that. The Europeans are MASTERS at making things difficult. I tell you what, I hope that before the open skies bull$hit gets passed (all the way), they better come up with a better way to do licensing; for experienced pilots. What idiot came up with the rule that one can fly an "N" registered a/c throughout Europe with almost no restrictions, however, that same a/c europe-registered is off limits.
Also, in over 15 years of flying in the States, I have never been close to banging up an airplane. It took an awesome european trained and licensed pilot to show me how to run an aircraft (almost) out of gas. But he sure knew his theory!
BTW, I'm european.