EASA is very confusing and complicated...
In my quest for finding a country (never mind flight school) to do my ICAO license conversion, I keep running into some very confusing situations which I have never been able to get a definite answer. So far, I have essentially been looking at getting a license issued by the UK CAA, or Swedish CAA. The UK CAA requires me to do a minimum of 15 hours of flying for my CPL (based on having 260 hours currently) and then 15 hours for my multi IR (10 in the sim, 5 in the plane) to be able to do my skills test and be issued a UK CPL with IR. When I inquired with schools in Sweden, they said I should expect 10 to 15 hours TOTAL flying (CPL/ME and IR) to be issued a Swedish CPL with multi IR. How is that in Sweden there is no minimum requirement for the CPL or multi IR, but in the UK there is? From what I am understanding, if I am fully proficient, I could in theory by done my CPL multi IR conversion in 5 hours (not including the skills test).
Even if Sweden is more expensive based on higher hourly rate, it can still be way cheaper to do the conversion in theory since the minimum amount is much lower then the UK
I thought every EASA state was supposed to more or less follow the same rules? Clearly this isn't the case....I even inquired with my native country's CAA and they won't even recognize my ICAO CPL and would make me redo the ENTIRE ground school and flight training from scratch which blows my mind
What gives? I thought all EASA member states where supposed to more or less follow the same rules, but that's clearly not the case... why do the Europeans have to make it so complicated...