Also as well I don't think you realise how much negative feeling there is about the current N reg status Quo. Both in the industry and politically across europe.
Only among full-time gravy train riders. Of which there are many, of course. On here, too. In most cases they are obvious (FTO owners, for example). Some are G-reg charter pilots who are bitter about illegal charters and think that N-reg is to blame for that (but actually anybody with a brain will do illegal charter work in a G-reg
).
I also find that people who have done the whole JAA route tend to "go native". Maybe I will one day (I have no more papers that can be physically collected) but it doesn't look like it presently, does it?
But hey this is normal. I have a business in electronics. Been doing this since 1978 so have seen a few things pass by... more than most people actually. Almost nobody who started in business when I started is still working in it. Most have gone bust, or moved into Marketing
BS5750, ISO9000, ROHS, REACH. WEEE, the list is longer than my arm. Every year we get a feast closely followed by a famine (the two terms are exchanged according to whether you are a supplier or a consumer
) as the sales reps
go around spreading daaaark tales of impending shortages so they get people to over-order so they can collect their commissions and change jobs quickly.
Just now I have got an email with a 20 page questionnaire listing hundreds of substances which the Politburo in Brussels has banned and I must sign it to say our products don't contain any of them. It is an almost daily ritual now. Of course I will sign it; everybody does. Some arse covering idiot at the receiving end smiles and files it, and
doesn't remove me from his approved supplier list
He is probably on £50k plus a car. He is one of the winners...... but if I did his job I could not go home and say to my lady and my kids that I am proud of my job.
Each one is a gravy train for
somebody. For every loser there is a winner, and the winner doesn't give a flying XXXX for what happens to the loser. The winners rarely if ever work in electronics manufacturing (they sit on committees and work for e.g. consulting companies
) just like the winners in aviation regulation are almost never pilots.
And the political types and NAA's publicly getting there nose rubbed in the fact that N reg crowed say that there system is !!!!e just makes them more hard nosed.
What do they expect? Do you seriously think that if p p r u n e was shut down, anything would change? I tell you what would change if internet forums vanished. With the sh****y PPL and IR training which is almost totally inadequate and irrelevant for the job, pilots would be much less clued-up than they are. I reckon 95% of tactical aviation expertise now comes from the internet, not from your instructor.
All they care about is that the citizens and residents of thier countrys abide by the laws and philosophys of thier law makers.
No they don't. They care about their well padded gravy trains. You need to get out more and meet some of the types behind this stuff.
Which is one of the reasons why I don't think there will ever be a easy swap for FAA tickets to EASA ones
That I agree with 100%. The "BASA around the corner" is a load of bull***t. But even if it wasn't it would never deliver a paper conversion route (along the lines of the old Irish FAA ATPL => JAA ATPL paper swap one for example).
That is why I did the
JAA IR conversion (sorry to post that link again but many people email me saying how useful it is) because any conversion that might come is not likely to be
significantly easier. Even if the exams shrink from the present 7 to say 2, all they need to do is remove the QB study option (which EASA clearly wants to do; refs in my writeup) and the study workload will be at/above the old system. And almost nobody will pass the JAA IRT without something like 15hrs' training. The "gravy tomorrow" talk is IMHO bollox. The option which is
on the table now is close to the best possible future option (short of a total EU meltdown).