US Pilot Moving To The UK

[Genghis the Engineer]

Originally Posted by shorehamite

Getting back to the original thread, i have just found SRG2140 on the internet, regarding a FAA licence holder flying in UK airspace.
Is this still a valid document?, it only seems to mention a verbal check , " confirmation of theoretical knowledge" by an examiner, rather than doing two written exams as mentioned by Ghengis.
Your knowledge gratefully appreciated.

You have to differentiate here between validation and issue of a new licence.

SRG2140 is what I mentioned in my original post as "You can get a briefing by an instructor (we call then FIs, "CFI" means Chief Flying Instructor here) and an examiner sign off that you understand how to fly in the UK - that will do you for a year.", however this is only valid for a year, and not renewable.

Hence my recommendation that the OP, who says he's going to be in the UK for at-least 3 years, just dives in and gets a UK PPL, following the procedure I described, since he'll need to do that at some point anyhow.

G