"Simon Robbins" wrote in message
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"Beav" wrote in message
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Getting your PPL ratified over here shouldn't be much of an issue after
that.

I spoke to CabAir about doing the three-week PPL course with their
affiliate
school in Florida. They said at the moment they can't award a JAR
certificate, on an FAA one for it, mainly because FAA teaches difference
procedures for auto-rotations*, but I'd only need an extra five hours bac
in
the UK to meet JAR requirements.

(* apparently in the US you don't have to put the ship on the floor when
practcing an auto, but in the UK you do.)

And those R22 auto arrivals are scary. doing them in an Enstrom is a joy,
coz you've got to work REALLY hard to make a pigs ear of it. Massive amounts
of inertia in those big heavy blades.

I still think it'd be an easier (and probably cheaper) solution to get your
PPL over the pond, then "do the necessary" to get your CAA licence, but
whichever route you take, have the very best of luck with it. That's
something I could've used 18 years ago.


Beav