Flying Dutch
You hit the crux of the post on the head.
Why should we on this side of the atlantic have to duck and dive by getting American qualifications.
Why can not GB,, if not Europe as a whole, readjust the regs so that they who want to do not have to enrich the coffers of the US to do what they can do if they want to. (enrich the coffers of the US)
Sorry about the sentence construction, regard it as a challenge.