Man you're annoying when you keep repeating "short cuts" and "cutting corners" WE GET IT!!
Like I said already I'm not trying to cut corners!! Yes I have 1000 hours in an R22 so what, I should kill myself? I never flown in Europe and I'd like to because that's where I'm from, I don't know anything about EASA regulations so I'm asking, (that's the point of a forum right?)
Why would that IFR training not get me an ATPL johni?
And
I'm assuming you're a pilot, how did you get to that straight road with no corners that took you where you are right now?
and even with an EASA multi crew licence you'll still be at the back of an ever- extending line of unemployed pilots.
That could be, I think that to find a job is 50% experience 50% the people you know.