Training & Flying in America: Visa information
Try to get married in the US guys. Several people from my school did it and most are much better off now. Saved them lot's of money and hassle. Not 14 exams to do etc.. not spending a fortune on an IR (that doesn't get you anywhere right now). You can still come back to Europe in the future if you want to. But then you know you will get a job with those hours you build over there. 
The market is just so much bigger and much more dynamic in the USA. Of course there's more people competing for those jobs but at least you know there's another couple hundred schools to work for if you don't get this gig or at least a couple dozen operators that offer entry level positions for low hour pilots once in a while.
I'm not saying it's easy, but easier than Europe.
The market is just so much bigger and much more dynamic in the USA. Of course there's more people competing for those jobs but at least you know there's another couple hundred schools to work for if you don't get this gig or at least a couple dozen operators that offer entry level positions for low hour pilots once in a while.
I'm not saying it's easy, but easier than Europe.
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nia, of course you are right. But I am pending between US, South Africa and New Zealand and if the US visa is the only benefit (which is not for sure to get a job in the sec. year) then doing the training anywhere else on the world would be cheaper and from the effectiveness more the less similar, then I am trying to go maybe there. Problem is the strong USD compared to the EURO, which kicks the most benefits of doing the training in US.
Yeah boratron, the Pound is much more stronger then the Euro at the moment. If I had pound, there would be no doubt of doing the training in US.
Yeah boratron, the Pound is much more stronger then the Euro at the moment. If I had pound, there would be no doubt of doing the training in US.
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Rusty 1983 and everyone else that is thinking of coming to the US as a European to get the flight training done.
If you have the slightest interest to ever fly in Europe or anywhere else besides the US, than there is only one way to get this done. Go to a school, that after a year you WILL have both EASA and FAA License/certificates! Anything else, you will regret down the road. You are not getting it any cheaper than doing both at once in the same school. Bite through it!
I started flying in 1980 in Europe and finally went to the US almost 20 years ago. Since I have been over here, I got calls from many European guys and they all asked what to do in reference to the path to success. I still maintain the same answer to this day. Get EASA and FAA at the same time!
Don't get fooled with job promises, every single student will get the same promise. And there are not that many jobs out there for every single one of them. Yes...I know...you will be better than the other guy, heard it all before
With the low oil price, very hard times are here to stay for a while. Talked to many experienced guys with either EASA-FAA-CAA or whatever license. The one license that will get you the most in the coming years, is an EASA ATP.
Once JAA got introduces I was lucky enough to get grandfathered in to a JAA VFR license. Just to maintain that thing is a flipping nightmare! I was thinking about adding an ATP to my EASA CPL and gladly declined after I was told what I had to do. What I am saying is, get everything you can at the beginning! Afterwards there will always be something in your way and the job that just got offered to you requires exactly what you just don't have. By the way, that never ends. After flying for 35 years holding several ATP's - CPL's RW and FW, there is always something else that employer wants that I don't have
Whatever you do, I wish you guys all the best and never give up, it is an uphill battle until you retire. But it will be worth it many times
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
Farrah Gray
If you have the slightest interest to ever fly in Europe or anywhere else besides the US, than there is only one way to get this done. Go to a school, that after a year you WILL have both EASA and FAA License/certificates! Anything else, you will regret down the road. You are not getting it any cheaper than doing both at once in the same school. Bite through it!
I started flying in 1980 in Europe and finally went to the US almost 20 years ago. Since I have been over here, I got calls from many European guys and they all asked what to do in reference to the path to success. I still maintain the same answer to this day. Get EASA and FAA at the same time!
Don't get fooled with job promises, every single student will get the same promise. And there are not that many jobs out there for every single one of them. Yes...I know...you will be better than the other guy, heard it all before
With the low oil price, very hard times are here to stay for a while. Talked to many experienced guys with either EASA-FAA-CAA or whatever license. The one license that will get you the most in the coming years, is an EASA ATP.
Once JAA got introduces I was lucky enough to get grandfathered in to a JAA VFR license. Just to maintain that thing is a flipping nightmare! I was thinking about adding an ATP to my EASA CPL and gladly declined after I was told what I had to do. What I am saying is, get everything you can at the beginning! Afterwards there will always be something in your way and the job that just got offered to you requires exactly what you just don't have. By the way, that never ends. After flying for 35 years holding several ATP's - CPL's RW and FW, there is always something else that employer wants that I don't have
Whatever you do, I wish you guys all the best and never give up, it is an uphill battle until you retire. But it will be worth it many times
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
Farrah Gray
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hi helinaut,
thanks for your input. if i got the money, i would do every license on the world and every rating which would be needed. the problem is, at the beginning you dont have the money for doing everything and you have to find the best solution where you would get the optimum of training, hours, licences and ratings for starting into a carreer. the topic is, with that high USD at the moment, why should you do the training in US, when you get it cheaper f.e. in new zealand? and that much cheaper, that it would be more worth doing 1 year training in NZ and do conversion afterwards in EU and you ll save money for other trainings at this way got as well also 2 licences.
so the only benefit of the US would be the visa for two years, including a possible job aftr the training as fi! if you dont get this job, doing the fi in US got no more benefits against other countries. and if only 10% would be taken over after the training you have to level if you take this risk or focus more on a different solution.
thanks for your input. if i got the money, i would do every license on the world and every rating which would be needed. the problem is, at the beginning you dont have the money for doing everything and you have to find the best solution where you would get the optimum of training, hours, licences and ratings for starting into a carreer. the topic is, with that high USD at the moment, why should you do the training in US, when you get it cheaper f.e. in new zealand? and that much cheaper, that it would be more worth doing 1 year training in NZ and do conversion afterwards in EU and you ll save money for other trainings at this way got as well also 2 licences.
so the only benefit of the US would be the visa for two years, including a possible job aftr the training as fi! if you dont get this job, doing the fi in US got no more benefits against other countries. and if only 10% would be taken over after the training you have to level if you take this risk or focus more on a different solution.
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helicopter add-on rating
Hello aviators,
I hope this is the right thread to place my question about helicopter add on rating.
I hold a FAA fixed wing commercial licence and like to add a helicopter class rating to it.
What type of TSA check is required and what type of visa?
I do not have any intensions of instructing or working in the U.S ! Just adding a helicopter to my licence for personal pleasure.
Thanks for any help.
I hope this is the right thread to place my question about helicopter add on rating.
I hold a FAA fixed wing commercial licence and like to add a helicopter class rating to it.
What type of TSA check is required and what type of visa?
I do not have any intensions of instructing or working in the U.S ! Just adding a helicopter to my licence for personal pleasure.
Thanks for any help.
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Entry to USA
Agree with Gordy that is a great way, when you meet with your immigration attorney they will offer you various options including citizenship if you can arrive in the USA with $1m ... long term this might be cheaper than the marriage option!
Entry to USA
Agree with Gordy that is a great way, when you meet with your immigration attorney they will offer you various options including citizenship if you can arrive in the USA with $1m ... long term this might be cheaper than the marriage option!
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Flight training in the USA - F1 Visa schools?
So far the only ones I have found are
Hillsboro
Mauna Loa
SUU
Any others i should add to the list that are worth looking at?
or any positive or negitive feedback about the ones above?
Hillsboro
Mauna Loa
SUU
Any others i should add to the list that are worth looking at?
or any positive or negitive feedback about the ones above?
