So what do they spend 50/55 hours doing in the cockpit?
A half competent IMCR holder will know this stuff already, but he gets zero credit.
Only an ICAO IR holder gets some credit. But even he has to endure the mind numbing utter bull***t of the 7 IR exams which are less than 5% relevant to any kind of flying.
What is the name of "your" FTO, bose-x? I'd like to do my JAA IR there. It sounds even easier than that new setup in Albania.