the training in the USA is given by US flight instructors( for the sim and ground training.)
Only the check ride is given by a JAA examiner.
I have called the Swedish civil aviation, and they can not answer to my questions about visa issue.
recently I have read that Flight safety has problems too, and some of my friends told me they are looking to move their sim out of USA.Don't know if it is true!
Once again,for a self sponsored student, the visa waiver or tourist visa is not authorized for type ratings in the USA. M1 visa or J1 visa only.
exception:You do not need an M1 or J1 visa if you are sent by a company and you have already started your training outside of Europe.
when I say company, I mean airline. A SSTR is not an airline and getting the books at home is not what I called starting a training..
I have one friend who did his 6 landings with his airline before his training in the States, in this case, they have accepted his wisa waiver as he was sent by a company.
For self sponsored students: at this time there is no legal visa and no way to go to the USA legaly, you risk to be sent back home at the port of entrance for improper visa.you will not be the first one.
don't believe if someone tell you to go to the USA with no visa or a tourist visa to study in the USA,
a tourist visa is for tourism, it is not to learn how to fly a 20 million dollars simulator...and SSTR can not issue you an M1 visa.
contact the TSA and your US embassy if you can go to the USA on a tourist visa to learn to fly unless you want take the risk to be deported(be sure to refer PPRUNE.ORG, so everybody will laugh at you).You will probably save lot of money
( I have lost mine when the TSA after the 30 days waiting period have asked me to come with an M1 visa, what a bad surprise!!! I believed the crap on this forum, and see the result?).
Last edited by dartagnan; 6th October 2006 at 10:27.