Originally Posted by kwachon
Regarding the time frame difference for getting typed by JAA and FAA, they are quite frankly, that the Europeans are still working on 50 year old knowledge and testing. Since when do you have to do a landing performance problem based on an L1011 landing on grass which is wet and greater than 2 inches long!
All that 'Performance A' BS occurs during the ATPL ground school, long before anybody gets a type rating, so it doesn't answer the question of why does a FAA type rating take half the time of a JAA one. The FAA may be working on more modern testing for their ATPLs but given that the questions are all available to buy in advance under freedom of information rules it's not really much of a test.