Hello all,
Whopity, thank you a lot for your clarification about the terminology.
OVC002, you are right, thank you too. I've already got confused with the terminology in the past
but I just wanted to make the distinction between a "standalone" licence and a "restricted one". Unfortunately, this makes a difference especially in France. You are arguing that a licence issued by CAA is a JAA licence, and that's it. OK, I wish you were right, but then, how can the French Aviation Authority (DGAC) not allow to fly on a foxtrott registered Aircraft? Does a JAA licence only allow you to fly on aircrafts registered by the the JAA member state which issued the licence? Is that possible? if you have a PPL JAA issued by the CAA, you can only fly on british registered aircrafts and not on German or French ones??? This statement may be too strong. Let me try to explain what I have understood so far (I may be wrong). The DGAC is saying that a "standalone" JAA PPL is recognised in France (wherever you got it from), but a FAA licence with JAA option (FAA Licence + you pass all 7 JAA tests + JAA Examination) like the one advertised by UK flight Training at Long Beach California, even if the CAA issues a JAA licence based on that, this licence will not be recognised by the DGAC. With such a JAR licence issued by the CAA (however you call the licence) you can only fly in France with Britisch registered aircrafts. Could someone please react to this statement?
IO540, thank you a lot for you comments. If I understand you right, you are telling me that a
standalone FAA is better if you want to do an IR thenafter, OK. And FAA as mentioned is a life time licence. However, the american FAA recognizes the JAA PPL (IR) and, see under the following link (Chris's experience, he got a "restricted" FAA PPL without even going to the USA)
http://www.cirrus147.com/faa_licensing.htm#MATTIR
. About the FAA licence, unfortunately, I am from a small town, Saint Louis in France, which is located on the German-Swiss border, and all three aeroclubs in "Habsheim" (near Saint Louis) have only French and German registered aircrafts.
Is the solution to do both? standalone FAA and standalone JAA? or to leave France and become a professional pilote?
