Then we could see the FAA standing on the same ground in 5-10 years that was occupied by JAR-folk today!! Where do the arguments go then?
G.
We see the current American Administration doing its dead level best to copy European/UK socialism here in our country, business, and economy all the while watching the results of decades of the same in the UK and Europe.
Just because one is being imitated does not necesarily make one a proper role model.
The last time we bashed accident rates and the like....there was no significant difference between the UK and the USA. Nick Lappos pointed that out in some detail as I recall.
Having sat the exams in both systems....the American system is by far more functional. The system uses a building block approach...PPL/CPL/ATPL and each level demands higher precision in the accomplishment of flight maneuvers and adds different levels of learning at each stage of licensing.
The written tests and flight tests are both geared to ensure a proper knowledge of the tasks one shall be confronted by while actually flying. I always wondered why I had to know the inter-workings of a Cereal Bowl compass or the landing gear system of a Lancaster Bomber in order to fly a helicopter in the UK. I am especially happy I got a waiver on the Morse Code section as well.
Does that make me any less the competent pilot?