foreign pilots replacing U.S. paper license

On Mar 4, 3:05*pm, Phillip LaBerge wrote:
Hi everyone!
Any idea how a French pilot with U.S. licenses (paper) goes about
replacing them with the new plastic licenses..........without having
to come to the USA?

Hello Phillip,

Does he hold a normal paper FAA Pilot Certificate, issued when he
passed a FAA Practical Test?

Or does he have an old paper "Restricted" US FAA Pilot Certificate
"based upon" maintaining currency of his French pilot license?

If it is the old "Restricted" version I believe he has some choices:

1. Visit a FAA FSDO in the USA (by appointment.) A "Verification of
the Foreign License" may be required if the FAA does not consider it
"grandfathered in". Ask in advance. Search www.faa.gov for guidance
on the verification process.

2. Pass the written / take some dual, then schedule a Practical Test
for a "real" FAA Pilot Certificate with a (Designated) Pilot Examiner.


Burt
Marfa, west Texas USA