We mortal and poor pilots have been complaining for years about the heading the training regulations have taken. We have not been heard nor will we be in the years to come.
JAR OPS/EU OPS and finally EASA PART FCL have approach is of pure and simple arrogance. The regulator and authorities have lost their focus on the most important stuff and are busy celebrating endless nitpicky facts.
Maybe the only way to lobby them and get some of this nonsense alleviated is for the FAA and other authorities to suspend their validations of foreign licenses as SASless proposes. It would us pilots badly, but might create the political storm we need to turn them of this path!
This move EASA’s behalf seems to threaten the ICAO rules and regulations.
We have lost in most parts the battle for a just, simple and cost effective regulatory structure for the issuance of licenses, ratings and medicals. Common sense is not so common and/or is being ignored completely.