thank you for your help, I will dig a little deeper into the requirments for the FAA CPL (H) I have looked at their web site for guidance but it is as bad if not worse than trying to decifer the CAA web site. my case is a little complicated as I am not current at this time. I have spoken to about 4 or 5 flight schools in the US and been given 4 or 5 diffent answers about what would be required, I have had all answers from " you would need to do the comlete cylabus, PPL, CPL, INSt ) etc etc " to " all your hours count and you need only do suficient to pass the skills test, oral exam and writen " I get the feeling some times that some flight schools just want you to do as many hours as possible with then so they make a lot more bucks. but the different answers mean the overall cost for me could be any where from $ 2500 to $ 45000, at big difference that I need diffinative answers to before commiting to any particular school.