Max,
The point of the matter is that the CAA have their favourites, the ex-mil pilots mainly.
I am all for scrapping the JAA exam b*llocks the majority of it being worthless, but it probably wont happen. So if you exempt military pilots then you will have to allow all other national licence holders such as FAA to transfer their licences directly without sitting the multi-guess pepsi-challenge. I don't have a problem with that, but the majority of UK commercial pilots would. Also if that were to happen the UK commercial schools would close down, potential pilots would go stateside, get their FAA and transfer it to a JAA with no hassle.
The whole point of the CAA/JAA exams is money making, we both know that. If the CAA are so hypocritical to grant exemptions to one group, they will surely have to grant it to all regardless of the impact on the industry it would have.
Will it happen? probably not..
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