Has there been a date set for when the change occurs?
I can see pro's and con's to the change.
Pro's - You don't have to pay to fly your aircraft to the examiner and back (although the flight to the examiner is a useful warm up). When we're talking about twin time, it isn't cheap.
Con's - I can totally see what you mean about standards dropping.
I would like to think that standards would be kept fairly high though because of students own safety. If there were to be some incidents and the people involved were trained at a certain FTO, that wouldn't look good for the FTO either.
Having said that, from what i've heard a Spanish IR isn't converted to a UK IR with safety in mind.
