make the emergencies and handling bits much tougher; maybe include some mandatory tailwheel time and some flights into uncontrolled grass runways.
Oh, you mean what we do all the time?
Speaking as a happy bunny flying from a grass airfield in France who has finally got the DGAC to agree that this bunny can instruct again on stuff other than microlights and gliders (dearly as I love them) and big big grin here they gave me french linguistic competency unlimited! (I think this was due to my arguing a lot on the phone with them, in french) Only took two years after renewing my FI in the UK, twenty years after moving to France with an equivalence due any time now......
Sorry about the thread drift, but I just had to tell y'all I'm so chuffed. And as the wx is too sh1t to fly here I am on Pprune.....