What (s)he (riverrock83) said!
My decision was based on the fact that if I got the JAA licence now, not only would I not have to wait any longer for my licence, but there appeared to be some situations in which an IMCr could still be added to it and would result in an IR(R) on conversion to EASA, whereas with a straight EASA licence nobody had come up with any scenario where it was known that the IR(R) could be added to it.
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