This has scuppered my plans of doing FAA CPL/IR with a view to returning here to reduce costs!
I am also getting fed up with all these changes, having supposedly planned out my training for the next year. Now, like others I have to re-think and get more money together!!!
However, there is another way of looking at this. It may disuade foreign pilots from jumping into our system due to the extra costs involved??? Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-foreign, but it will disuade some of them and it will increase revenue for schools over here - a tactic already employed by some other countries within the JAA not too far away from our shores??? Maybe this ia a protectionists reaction to the way that other countries stop foreign pilots entering their system?
Can anyone see a hole in my thought pattern?
I'm glad this was posted, coz I was just about to leap, and fall flat on my face. Thanks to the originator!!!!!!