I could not agree more.
I, and my 3 of my buddies at flightschool, spent a year fighting this system and it was a nightmare, to say the least. We were finishing our CPL and were supposed to start the ATP theory, in our good old system, when they put up the JAR FCL in Iceland. Stuck smack in the middle of things, we felt the weight of this implementation full force. The story is to long to put into detail here but I have a very thick pile of documents from the CAA and Ministry of transport as well as our flight school and JAA offices on the mainland, as a reminder of this dark period. The flight school cancelled all our courses and intended to send us all smiling, with wallets out, paying them along the way, to our deaths in the JAA system. Boy, where they suprised when all the students walked out of the school as a sign of protest. We built our case, among other regulations concerning education, on the clause from JAR FCL 1005. Eventually we got to finish our education, delayed for over a year. I learned more about law, regulations and bureaucracy than flying during my stay in that flight school. The strange thing was that the flight school was our main opponent in our struggle. In the end the minister of transport ordered this flight school to finish our education and the head teacher and principal of the school where fired. I still donīt understand today why our flight school was against us. 84 students eventually took the ATP course and exams and got to finish in the old system. I was very proud to know that I helped in getting them all on the way to that goal. This flight school has 13 students today and I feel sorry for all of them Me and my friends are all flying today, two of us 747 classics and the other two, including me, light piston twins waiting for something bigger to come along. I wish I could say the same about the first full JAA class that came after us. None of them are flying and most have dropped out and I dont blame them. .