"BT" wrote in news:Qmxfk.1549$_J5.1242
@newsfe02.iad:

hey bertie. since you're a flight instructor ....do the yanks still
do
the short course for an FAA licence based on a foreign licence?
the sorta thing you used to be able to do at oshkosh.
or have idiots like maxie and the 9/11 thing killed it forever?

something I'd like to do when I get to the US again.

I dont think you need a course. You just get a US licence based on
your
own national licence.I think there's some lead in time so they can
check
you out or something, but I think there's no testing in it. You need
to
give the district office near where you're going a coll a few months
beforehand, I think. They can tell you better'n me anyway.

Bertie


Bertie is correct, bring over your UK Papers.. and if the UK requires
a
medical, bring that too.
Take it all with your log books to the local Flight Standards District
Office (FSDO) by appointment only, and they will issue a US
certificate
based on your UK license. Then all you need is a BFR given by any
local
Instructor that says you are good to fly solo.

Scary isn't it.


Vicey versey, you can operate in most parts of the world wiht a US
licence as long as two of the followong line up: Airplane, pilot, and
country.
So, you could fly a French reg airplane with your us licence and a
french validation but only inside the JAR zone. In some countries they
won't even require a validation ( which is effectively what the FAA
licence based on a foreign licence is) You can just go to an FBO and get
checked out and sent off. A few of my crew went out and rented a 172 in
France when we were laying over a few days and did more flying in it in
three days than we did on duty! IIRC they had to present themselves at
some authroty to get a bit of paper and then a quick checkout and off
they went.
what they could not do, however, was fly to say, North Africa with the
airplane. They would need to be in an airplane that matched their
licence. I believe the same would apply in the US. A visitor with a Euro
Jar Licence could not fly a Canadian reg'd airplane in the US, for
instance. With professional flying we get all sorts of validations and
such to cover this. Ferrying is generally no problem, however. I did one
oout of the UK many years ago in a G reg airplane and there was a
proviso on the ferry permit which restricted us from landing in the UK
with the airplane once we'd taken off from Coventry.


Bertie