I’ve just come across an article in one of UK’s ATPL training industry rags (yes, the one that uses 25 different font sizes on one page) about this. This leads to the obvious question as to why, given that their safety record, flying (mostly) N-regs on FAA papers, is at least as good as that of the gold-plated JAA IR holding “locals”. FWIW, it took me about 25hrs to...