Originally Posted by
pilotchute
I now have an FAA ATP and am looking for a way to get the 320 put on the FAA certificate. Thr FSDO keeps telling me they dont convert foreign type ratings and I almost lose my cool telling them the rating was done in a US certified simulator by an FAA instructor in the USA.
Help please
'chute,
This stuff is just one rabbit hole after another ! And you can get a different answer depending on which FSDO; these folks do make mistakes. This below is the only thing I can find from the link I posted up in #30. And
I suspect the term "rating" is more for something like IR or MEL rather than type rating...but who knows. MarkerInbound seems very knowledgeable about this stuff. Maybe he'll read your request and chime in:
5-597 U.S. PILOT CERTIFICATES THAT MAY BE ISSUED TO A PERSON WHO HOLDS A FOREIGN PILOT LICENSE.
I. Added Ratings to a U.S. Pilot Certificate. If a person requests that a rating be added to his or her U.S. pilot certificate on the basis of meeting the appropriate pilot certification requirements of part 61 (i.e., the practical test and the knowledge test, if applicable), those requirements must be accomplished before the issuance of that additional rating.
However, if the person requests the added rating on the basis of that rating having been added to his or her foreign pilot license, no knowledge test or practical test is required. The authenticity of the foreign license must be verified before adding the appropriate rating.