Originally Posted by tangovictor
I may be wrong, however, unless you can afford to buy your own plane, I wonder how many airplane rental companies, would recognise,an American licence and flying time ? might be worth ringing a few, before deciding
All of them! Hours are hours are hours! Can also be counted towards a JAA licence should you want to pursue one - the exception being the FAA practice of logging 'Safety Pilot', buts that another story!
You can hire a G Reg and fly it on your FAA licence, there is currently another thread on Pprune discussing this and its previledges.
Learn to fly where you want to learn to fly!!! A checkout over here afterwards (which you will have to do anyway if you have not flown with a particular rental outfit before), will take 1-2 hours.