"this will get me the JAA CPL and that means I can do anything except be a captain of an IFR sikorsky off shore...."
I don't know where you've been getting your info from mate but I wasn't aware of a special licence to operate an IFR sikorsky(sic) offshore...
You'd improve your chances, nor only of employment, but also of credibility here by doing even the most basic research.
Have you written to Bond and Bristows? No I didn't think so. But why not? It takes 30 seconds to find their addresses on a web search...
Have you submittred your logbook for an assessment to FCL? (Flight Crew Licencing at the CAA) It doesn't sound like it! Until you do you'll have no idea whatever of what it really will take to convert.
Have you got a JAR Class 1 medical? Its the first thing to do...
If you imagine that you need to do "only" 9 exams perhaps you'd better find out just how involved those exams are, and then maybe you'll remove the "only" from that statement. You'll "only" spend 6 wks in a classroom to prepare for them, plus more for the technical exams which you may be able to self study. Then you'll have to do the flight tests, plus almost certainly a specified amount of flying training to prepare for them at an approved school too. Big money, big effort, takes months and months. But I say again, ONLY FCL can tell you what you will need to do to get a licence. You'll find their contact details on - guess where? The CAA website!!!
If you've been flying around the world for so long I'd have thought you'd know by now about the relationship between national registry and commercial operations. Ain't no N reg commercial work in Europe cos it ain't the USA, see?
Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Perhaps you'd better get planning!
And here's a start;
http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?ca...75&pagetype=68
LASORS is one section you may be interested in, good luck!
Addendum...
Copterfamily, I've just discovered your parallel thread
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...hreadid=155548 on an almost identical subject that you started in Dec 04. If I'd known you'd been given all the necessary advice and info six months ago and despite this still not bothered to find out the facts for yourself I wouldn't have wasted my breath on the above. The answer won't change by asking the same questions over again. With the greatest respect I suggest you either piss or get off the pot.