JAR Approval
The issue of JAR training outside of the JAA member states is a real thorny issue, and pretty hard for a newbie to understand.
BillieBob, what you say is not entirely correct. If a school in the USA, or anywhere for that matter, wants to act as a 'sub-contractor' for JAR training, they still need approval to conduct such training. This involves all intructors to be trained and tested by an approved CAA examiner (if under CAA juristiction), and the premises, airfield etc have to be approved. Its all a far cry from the early days of any shabby little school in the USA setting up CAA PPL training, JAR really have a lid on this, and quite right too.
WMU had a good reputation, employed very competant UK instructors who passed on the knowledge of JAR training to their American colleagues. No reason to see that has changed, although all the Brit instructors have long gone!