To "the controller"
No, I don't think "this IS funny".
You should read my post better. My question may be naive but was not "how do I become a helicopter pilot", I've done my homework before posting here, thanks to internet, pprune, phone calls, visiting schools aorund Paris.
I was asking advice about a flight school in particular having already picked up lots of infos here, proof is I know this flight school better than you.
I thank everyone else about their sound advice. Visa, TSA, it's all figured out.
Hillerbee: the rates on the web site are wrong. It's 245$/hr dual, ground instruction is 35$. When I called, they reckoned not having updated their site for quite some time.
And France has implemeted the JAA since this year, no more DGAC rules.
Thanks again, it's more replies in 2 hours than 2 months on French heli web sites.