number
18th Aug 2003, 05:43
Hi,
Does anybody know how a non European flight school can get the rights to give JAA training courses and licences out of the UE?
dorosenco
19th Aug 2003, 01:34
Number,
The only way that a non-european flight school can deliver flight training towards a JAA license is if that flight school is a satellite of an european flight school or if that flight school is approved by the CAA to deliver flight training outside a JAA country. Examples : Oxford at Tyler TX, Atlantic Airlines at Sanford, FL which are european flight schools based in the US.
These schools which are approved to deliver JAA training outside a JAA country are very closely monitored by the CAA. There is a LOT of paperwork that they have to fill up and they need an approved sylabus, checlists, airplanes, etc ... (lot of work). An example is European Flight Training at Fort Pierce, FL; Naples Air Center, FL; International Flight Training, FL; etc ...
The drawback of undergoing flight training towards a JAA license in a non-JAA country is that even if the CAA issues you a license some other JAA countries might not want to recognize it. Good example is FRANCE which refuses to convert any JAR-FCL license if the flight training was completed outside a JAA country. They only way that they will accept the license is if that training was towards a JAR-FCL "conversion" which means only if you hold a non-JAA professional license and you converted it to a JAA license outside a JAA country.
Best advice: if you want to undertake flight training in the US, get your FAA CPL/IR/ME first and then CONVERT them to JAA in the US. Again, even if the CAA license is valid another JAA country might not want to recongnize it if it was not a non-JAA license conversion in a first place.
There is a COMPLETE list of FTOs approved to deliver flight training towards a JAA license inside and outside a JAA country on the my website: www.passion2fly.com link "JAA conversions".