PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Pre 2012 UAS flying hours
View Single Post
Old 7th Jun 2018, 14:21
  #8 (permalink)  
airpolice
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Banished (twice) to the pointless forest
Posts: 1,558
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by HaselFreda
Yeah, thanks rudestuff, that's certainly an option. I suppose I would need to go to the US (cost of flights / accommodation and time off work) unless there are FAA training centres and examiners in the UK? Maybe I could train in the UK and just go over when I'm ready, familiarise myself with the area and take the skills test?

I think I'd need over 100 total hours and take another skills test to convert an FAA PPL to Part-FCL? I'm on 69 hours, so I would need a further 31 hours, plus a skills test (plus the direct / indirect costs of going to the US).

hmm...
Or, get an NPPL here in about the same hours.
airpolice is offline