Originally Posted by Gordy
I am going out on a limb here and say that if you have had an LPC on your foreign license within the preceding 24 months that would cover you for the FAA Flight review.
No-where in 14 CFR 61.56 does it say it has to be in an N reg or by an FAA CFI.
The qualifying mechanisms in 14 CFR 61.56 clearly exclude, in the absence of a specific exemption, proficiency checks conducted under a foreign authority. The "examiner" referred to in 14 CFR 61.56(d)(1) for instance is well defined and has been held by the Office of the Chief Counsel as excluding foreign examiners. A relevant opinion was given to John D Collins on 4 Apr 2013 by Mark W Bury, Acting Assistant Chief Counsel for International Law, Legislation and Regulations Division (
PDF). Besides, non-US personnel have not been found competent to deliver ground training on the relevant rules in 14 CFR 91.
Any reference to "flight training" in part 61 is a reference to training carried out by an "authorized instructor" which, in the absence of a specific exemption, may include foreign flight instructors pursuant to the conditions in 14 CFR 61.41. The conditions for the latter are that the training shall only be credited towards the training requirements of a pilot certificate or rating issued under part 61 and the training has been received outside the US. There is a further condition limiting the purview of the foreign instructor to giving endorsements to show training given which falls short of the requirement in 14 CFR 61.56(c)(2) for an endorsement "from an authorized instructor who gave the review certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed the review."
Instructor conducting flight reviews in the United States may not be remunerated, which includes logging flight time, when foreign (non-leased) aircraft are used. See 14 CFR 375.