U.S. visa query

[CanCan71]

Anyone been to the U.S. for hour building/a flying holiday in the last few months?

Did you travel on the visa waiver scheme (if from the UK) or did you use a specific visa?

Realise this has probably been done to death elsewhere, but I'm really looking for answers from those with more recent experience, please, not dated stuff.

No offence!
:D

[Sans Anoraque]

You're right it has been done to death. You only need a visa for training, not hour building/flying holiday. To get an FAA airman cert based on your CAA/JAA PPL you need to go through various hoops (ie, apply to a specfic US FSDO and pay the CAA to confirm you are who you say you are). I'm sure some kind person will post you a link to the forms.

Then it's just a BFR and away you go.

[Hour Builder]

Here is the link to the licence verification process.

Have fun

HB

http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?categoryid=175&pagetype=87&groupid=612

[CanCan71]

SA, HB,

Thanks for your replies.

Have already gone through the CAA/FAA hoops, and things are OK on that score.

It's just that I had an anxious few moments yesterday when someone mentioned the dreaded "v" word, as I'd previously thought that I'd covered all the required paperwork angles; then when I looked on PPRuNe, people were mentioning B1 this and B2 that, and...

Anyway, you can only plan so much, and the rest happens as it will.

Chocks away!