Wee...not a particularly stunning "forecast" - the JAR rules have been on the cards for way more than 18 months.. .. .Capt. Emerald.....do you "really" think it is a bad thing that the JAA want you to be qualified to teach the subject??. .. .Do the FAA allow any ICAO instructor, from any other Country, to teach FAA pilot license applicants without being an FAA CFI??. .. .Teaching somebody how to operate an aircraft is - I agree - probably the same in most Countries ... pull stick back, cows get smaller ... pull stick back further, cows get bigger again.. .. .Then comes the question of air law. How many FAA instructors have knowledge of JAA air law (quadrantal rule, distance to fly to qualify as a cross country flight, non IFR flights in Class A airspace, altitude limits below airways, Rule 5, no night VFR, etc.). .. .Meterology....freezing levels, mountain fog, carburettor icing, airframe icing, - I'm thinking of the Floridians here...I may give you Thunderstorms (but I have seen a PA28 DEPARTING on a dual training flight, in the midst of a thunderstorm, so maybe I won't).. .. .R/T .... although you disagree with the European procedures and phraseology (even though the FAA and AOPA don't) ... the client that pays your mortgage is still hoping to learn it through you.. .. .Navigation .... not done here the way they want to TEST it for European operations during the clients "check ride". Don't care if "it works here" ...it's not what the client really needs.. .. .Performance, Airframes and Human Factors....well, I'm sure any decent instructor could do those...and the JAA may be quite happy for you to teach it - rather than tell the student to go home with Trevor Thom Book "X" and teach himself. This, however, is not like the FAA - they want you to have a ground instructor qualification...based on the FAA syllabus.. .. .Whilst I am 100% for ICAO instructors teaching ICAO flying to ICAO students in ICAO aircraft in ICAO airspace - all the JAA are asking you to do is to STANDARDIZE with the syllabus that you are meant to be teaching....and I don't find that to be at all questionable.. .. .I know that I, with over 3,000 hours of "dual given" would not be allowed to teach a JAA student in FAA airspace without a full FAA CFI rating (which entails full commercial and instrument rating first). This is way more than the 30 hours of ground school and 15 hours of flight training that the JAA is asking you to do.. .. .Nobody is questioning (at least, not at this point) your ability to teach a student to fly an aircraft. They are simply asking you to partially standardize with the instructors that are fully rated to teach the relevant subject - which YOU, apparently, are not.. .. .I don't think this is unfair.