FAA seeks to raise Airline Pilot Standards

[stilton]

There is a lot of inappropriate arrogance about the higher level of academics required for the written exams in the JAA system.


Point is, it's irrelevant and provides no advantage in the real world. The Pilots of AF447 had JAA licences, where did that get them ?


I always find it ironic that, with the emphasis on 'Performance A' in this system there are so many accidents and incidents with misloading and / or incorrect computation of take off weights, v speeds and power settings by these same crews.