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Old April 16th 07, 01:38 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ...
: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:55:00 -0400, "Peter R."
: wrote in :
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: Chris is learning to fly in Australia. I am pretty sure US Afars do not have
: authority there.
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: I'm pretty sure that US FARs conform to ICAO standards, and would
: expect Australian regulations to also.
:

Fortunately for us Americans, the FARs do not always follow ICAO 'standards.' Used to be we basically set the standards
and those were adopted worldwide, but those worldwide 'standards' have been (IMHO) unnecessarily tightened up in the
last number or years. Don't know about this particular case though...