How are other EU states finding the EASA process? Good? Bad? Terrible? Indifferent?
Whatever the answer is I can't help but think we in the UK, or perhaps more accurately our CAA, are making much more of a meal of the EASA process and causing people a lot more pain and suffering than is going on in other European countries.
In short are we, to a certain extent, using EASA as a stick to beat ourselves with?
Is the CAA not making the mistake, as government bodies so often seem to do with European regulation in the country, of taking interpretation a bit too literally and getting knickers in a twist over minor details, I'm thinking in particular of the new rules for flight school regulation and perhaps also fare paying passengers on historic aircraft...
Could we actually take a more 'French' approach to things and just relax a bit?
Obviously issues like the retention of the IMC rating do make the British perspective different, that I don't dispute, but in terms of other areas on regulation are we actually making life harder for ourselves than it needs to be...?