Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:30 pm
#19366
No question that the FAA IR is a very easily-won rating by comparison to its JAA equivalent.
The theoretical knowledge requirement, as well as the standard of flying required are lower for the FAA ticket. A quick look at the published practical test standards will confirm this, just in case anybody suspects bias here.
"So why aren't American Airliners getting lost or falling out of the sky all the time then?" comes the cry.
Because the FAA ATP flight test, which all on board will have passed, is much more demanding than our CPL/ATPL GFT and there is no concept of a Frozen ATPL, so that everybody on board that airliner will have at the very least 1500 hours. Not the 300 hours that some manage today in the UK.
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