BEagle you are correct. All self sponsored applicants have to pass a battery of aptitude tests before being accepted in Jerez. Quality of output being the name of the game in what will hopefully turn out to be an upwardly spiralling spirall of better applicants > better graduates > better job offers > better applicants.
The EU cannot compete against the US due to our inherent higher cost structures. Therefore we shall operate as a unified trading block with closed borders between FAA and JAA. Simple.
The same thing also means of course that the door is closed to lots of non-EU pilots thus helping you enormously to get that first job once you have stumped up your full whack for your JAA training. Remember - getting a job is what its ALL about in the end.
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