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Old 31st May 2006, 21:45
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mongoose237
 
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I do not know which website this is from, but here is my take:

Training the European market is big business, and this is not the first time I have heard of schools rather unscrupulously tell prospective students they are getting a JAR (compliant - please don't notice this bit) licence. Translation - an ICAO licence. Hours is hours. Read it carefully - "Obtain both the JAR Compliant and JAA PPL - no extra course cost".

My reading of this is that you get their national PPL and during the training you will cover all syllabus requirements for a JAA PPL. Therefore, on return theoretically you could sit a JAA PPL skills test somewhere else without any further training costs.

It's not a JAR licence because no JAR licence is "issued immediately upon passing your final flight test"

Caveat Emptor

Edit. Don't however concern yourself with distinctions between JAA and JAR - they are often used synonymously, as you will see I lazily have above.
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