Planning a trip

"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
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"Martin Hotze" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:58:02 GMT, Gerald Sylvester wrote:

I don't know about owning as I just got my PPL (on 12/17/03 ).
In the middle of my license I lived in Germany for 3 years.
Basically
(if I had finished my license by then) I read it would take about
10-12 hours to get my German-JAA license.

it now takes about 100 hours. yes, I know, ridicolous.

"Michael Nouak" wrote in message
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Am I reading this correctly? 100 hours to convert from FAA to JAA? Since
when?

That's a little misleading. You need to have 100 hours P1 to turn an FAA
PPL into a JAA one. The only incremental requirement is a checkride and a
couple of ground exams. Many states, such as the UK, validate non-JAA
PPLs
automatically, so even if you don't do the conversion you can still fly
G-reg aircraft. Note that this doesn't apply to the IR.

Julian, can you clarify a couple of things?

"You need to have 100 hours P1..." - I assume you mean 100 hours
P1-equivalent, and that would be met by US PIC. Perhaps those who are close
to the 100 hours mark would also need to clarify whether that means actual
PIC or logging PIC.

You say the UK validates non-JAA PPLs automatically, but in a later posting
that the UK has transitioned from national license to JAR-FCL. Now I'm
confused; is the automatic validation still, err, valid?

-- David Brooks