Licensing: can you have your cake and eat it? FAA/EASA
Good afternoon all,
I am currently in flight training in the USA and have been so for around 6 months now. I am a British national, working towards an EASA airline transport pilots licence on an integrated course and have around 6 months to go now till completion. I have absolutely fallen in love with the USA though and I'm thinking I'd like to live out here permanently but I don't want to lose my EASA licence as I believe its a licence that will open many many doors whereas the FAA licence seems a little sequestered. So:
Is it possible to hold both ATPL licences simultaneously?
What does the conversion process look like?
I completed the 750hrs classroom time or whatever it was in 7 months and attained all 14 groundschool exams, so I believe that there would be a requirement to sit the FAA exams which I believe are nowhere near as in depth? would it be possible to come and just sit the exams as a distance learner? after that do you need to do FAA flight training or could I just come and sit the check rides for the ME IR?
Im aware you need 1500hrs to get taken on by the airlines over here in the states but I can get 1500hrs turbine time back in Europe.
Thanks to anyone who's taken the time to read and respond to this.