Thankyou everyone its certainly cleared it up for me
55hours and a shed load cash for IR training, another protectionist racket from the powers that be.
Personally I'd like to see some uniformity in licencing throughout the world being put in place by the ICAO. And a pig just flew past my window.
I suppose its up to the individual pilots collectively to lobby for this, but it is by the very nature of the game that we are involved in, it will never happen.
My thanks