"Requiring any ex-UK military pilot to prove that they have ICAO Level 6 English Language proficiency is a total insult - can you imagine that happening in the US? "
I have yet to meet a yank that would pass the test in English!
Incidentally, I recently added the Level 6 bollocks to mine by emailing an address the CAA gave me. They posed me a letter stating "to whom it may concern etc etc that I qualified"