I think the French are far from perfect but so are the British judging from all your complaints about the CAA. All I read is the cost of examinations and the "must be CAA employed examiners" and the costs of a170 and ... and ...
The only positive seems to be the IMCr....
The FAA has certainly a much more pragmatic approach to things than EASA.
Alas ... we live in europe .. and allthough the EU and EASA brings us quiet a bit of limitations and extra burden ... it has also brought peace and prosperity to our region with far to many countries with each their own unique identity on a small area.
And frankly .. I rather enjoy the French wines.
French wines have improved greatly since they imported Austalians to show them how to make it
The peace and tranquility is liable to go the way of the Russian empire thanks to the excessive expansion and the cock up over the Euro.
If Stalin and Roosevelt hadn't stitched Churchill up, Europe would have been absorbed into the British Empire in 1946, everyone would speak English and it would all work swimmingly
