Originally Posted by Keef
Once you get back to the UK, you can fly here on your FAA PPL - but you can't leave the UK (for example to go to France) without a JAR-recognised PPL, unless you're in an N-reg aircraft.
Not true!! Check the ANO and LASORS section A7:
http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?ca...68&groupid=780
The FAA Private certificate is a "licence rendered valid" under the ANO and with it you can do anything you can do with a basic JAA PPL - you can't attach ratings to it, but you *CAN* fly overseas in a G-reg aircraft.