Some of the flyer bunch are current FAA/IR's it will be interesting to see whether they are ready for the exam in the minimum 15 hours.
Right and I'd say no way, unless they had been training in the USA with a view to converting to JAA. A friend of mine did it in minimums, but he'd been trained for the FAA IR with a view to conversion by a place in the USA run by Europeans who had been through the conversion. He did it in minimums, but the astounding thing was that the whole conversion process in Bournemouth took 5 weeks, even with only 15 hrs, of which I think 5 or so were in the sim (full time course this was and he already had the ATPLs). He had to rent digs for the 5 weeks......