Thanx Jim.. BT

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:Mrstg.67571$ZW3.30375@dukeread04...
Since he has a USA ATP rotorcraft certificate he no longer
qualifies to use the Canadian certificate to get a USA
private based on the Canadian certificate. The easiest path
to fly USA airplanes in the USA is to add the category and
class rating to the ATP, no more written is required, just
an oral and flight test. Using a CFI and getting the
required 61.31 endorsements is necessary, but the CFI does
not have to recommend for the ATP additional rating.

General rule... A US certificate holder must have the
category, class and type ratings but can fly any aircraft
registered any where in the world within the USA. They can
fly a US registered aircraft anywhere in the world. A
Canadian can fly a US registered aircraft in Canada or any
other within Canada or possibly in international airspace,
except within the USA.


The holder of an ATP can choose to add a rating at a lower
level to the certificate, but in that case needs to have the
appropriate knowledge test and all the endorsements and
signatures. Their certificate would be ATP rotorcraft [this
example] helicopter and the ASEL IR commercial privileges.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:_Kktg.12010$6w.1684@fed1read11...
|a Canadian with a canadian fixed wing rating cannot fly a
US regisistered
| airplane
| He needs should have just been able to get the US
equivalent based on his
| Canadian fixed wing rating.
|
| The US ATP in helo would have no merit in this case.
|
| BT
|
| "Don Tuite" wrote
in message
| ...
| Couple years ago, a buddy of mine, a Canadian landed
immigrant had to
| jump through the hoops. He had a US airline transport
rating, but in
| helicopters and a canadian fixed wing rating. He wanted
to buy into
| the club and fly its pipers.
|
| He had to go through the TSA stuff AND take post-solo
PPL training.
| What was particularly wacky was that he had to do all
the solo hours
| as well. Why? Because while he had hundreds of
fixed-wing hours in
| his Canadian logbooks, he'd generally flown with
friends, and he'd
| always noted their names in the remarks column. FSDO
said those hours
| didn't count because he wasn't SOLO.
|
| Also, it was hard fo find a freelance instructor who
wanted the grief
| of making sure he'd crossed his Ts and dotted his Is.
|
| Makes buying stamps at an Italian Post Office seem like
childs' play.
|
| Don
|
|