Mr P.fate.
just my opinion but I think you are completely wasting your time even visiting scotland without a UK or JAR licence and even if you have that you should get a IR added to it (at your own expense)over here to to get nearer the front of the queue. which would obviously be an expensive high risk strategy.
even if they were recruiting (which they arent, the opposite in fact), I dont think would be interested at all in you with an FAA licence and would not be interested in the conversion as they have plenty of people with UK/JAR licences on their books.
yeah one of the operators arranged for a UK validation for 2 canadians once, but that lasted less than 1 year, and that was 2 years ago.
a bit depressing I know, any one working for CHC or BHL care to disagree ?