SoCal is correct, I have been doing BFR's in Germany for folks who have the FAA stand alone license and the FAAcert based on their german license. I always have to make sure that the folks have their FAA medicals, and such as well as their german medicals and currency. Only those with stand alone FAA cedrts do not have to have their German certs current to get a FAA BFR and such. Its really not a big deal to keep the faa certs up to date. But each time I look into the reqirements of JAA and the germans license requiements always seem glad I haven't gotten mine! lol
keep the shiny side up!