Originally Posted by
rudestuff
As I've told you before in other threads, the FAA route is cheaper if you're going "all the way", which you are.
The PPL is just a stepping stone so it doesn't matter which you get, you certainly don't need to convert an FAA PPL to EASA - you can go straight to CPL.
If you take the FAA route, you only need PPL and multi IR - you don't need commercial. This is because the FAA commercial is 250 hours, which means 270 hours by the time you convert. That would be daft since the EASA CPL is only 200 hours!
Part 141 the FAA CPL is 190 hrs..........