FAA getting fed up with JAA intransigence
Just had lunch with a fairly senior FAA bloke who was telling me the FAA is planning to make it a lot harder for JAA training to be conducted in the US unless the JAA relaxes it's requirements to convert. Right now, the FAA will convert any ICAO PPL to an FAA one, and expects reciprocity. Apparenently, negotiaions have broken down between the two.
Also, the FAA is thinking of changing the wording in 61.87 to prevent JAA instructors in the US training a student, then fobbing them off to an FAA instructor for solo and solo X-C privledges.
Might be rather interesting if an NPR comes out on the subject...