| Practically what you do is you email pt 141 school and say "I want to do my CPL". They will then issue you all the visa paperwork / TSA / Whatever. You then train under pt 61 under the umbrella of the pt141 school - because frankly pt 141 is a waste of time unless you are going from zero to CPL/IR.
Actually if you do get a visa then you may as well do the CPL ME rating too - then you'll never need to get another training visa. Practically the CPL is useless without an IR so you may as well do the whole shebang.
The problem is that you may well NOT need a visa, but all flight training in the USA is so paranoid (of the US government I might add) that they have to cover their ars*s to such an extent, you'll be told you need a visa whoever you ask. |