At last progress and sense. I personally always thought it was a scandal that someone could get a UK ATPL without flying anything bigger than a Seneca but I think the FAA not requiring f/o's to have a type rating was an even bigger debacle! This rule goes totally against logic after all the f/o is there (in part) to take command if the captain becomes incapacitated. So if I was sitting in seat 17A on an N registered 767 and the skipper keeled over I don't think I would take much comfort in the knowledge that the aircraft would now be flown by someone who hasn't got a type rating on it!