Hi ILS30LGB,
I'm in a similar situation as you licence wise, although I am yet to obtain a CFI certificate and have just over 500 hours (studying for the FOI and CFI writtens at the moment).
My intention is to convert my FAA CPL/IR (SE) over to a JAA CPL/IR "fATPL". To do this I am required to complete:
1) FAA ME / JAA ME courses. The FAA ME Add-On will comprise a couple of approaches to add the the ME to the FAA IR privilages. As I already have a JAA PPL/IMC I'm going to have the JAA ME added to the PPL. I'm off to an FAA / JAA school in Florida next March for the course.
2) JAA ATPL Written Exams after an approved course at a training provider. Takes 6 months residential or 1 year distance learning (approx).
3) JAA CPL Skills Test with training as determined by the CFI.
4) JAA IR 15 Hour Flight Training Course with the IR flight test afterwards.
If you would like to instruct, you will also need to go through a full JAA FI(R) course and flight test, even though you have an FAA CFI certificate.
If you had an FAA ATP with type rating, a vast amount of time on type etc, then you'd be exempt from formal ground school (but not the exams) and also formal IR flight training.
The above is how I understand the situation of converting the FAA certificates over to their JAA counterparts, if any of this is wrong then I wouldn't mind being corrected...
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Best wishes,
Charlie Zulu.
Last edited by Charlie Zulu; 12th November 2003 at 06:31.