I'm a FAA kind'a guy, always have been. The JAA PPL single and multi I earned a few years ago enlightened me to the system, reinforced by my JAA colleagues in the UK reassuring me that a good portion of information required for their qualifications is bollocks. Why do you clutter your cranium with so much **** you will not use?!
I was flight trained at an early age in the FAA system with subsequent training in the US Air Force, followed by upgrades to instructor and ATP via the FAA system. All training and evaulations were professional and relevant, applying firsthand the knowledge to flying skills.
For EASA to require FAA certificated airmen to adhere to such a bloated bureaucratic admistrative (and costly) drill is ludicrous. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail.
As many inputs to this thread have reiterated, there is no evidence that JAA training requirements are safer than FAA. Does a fund generating gesture come to mind? Simply bureaucratic BS.
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