The bureaucrats have a clear mandate for their idiocy in the mindlessly phrased EASA mission statement which is "promote the highest common standards of safety and environmental protection in civil aviation". To the bureaucrat that's easy, everybody meets the standards set for heavy CAT.
So now you know why they operate the way they do, it's not their fault, they're just following the orders of the even more barking mad European Commission
Our problem is we try and implement this nonsense to the letter instead of trying to avoid doing anything at all which is the well practiced French approach to bureaucracy
