Crap pilot did you have some direct experience??
think about it: To get IR you need or ATPL or IR theory examination...to get CPL idem, you need ATPL or CPL theory examination.
Well....how many people from UK go to Spain to make IR course after ATPL done in UK? and how many people from Florida (Naples for example) go to Spain after their ATPL there?
If the ATPL is not recognized as theory to do training and exame for CPL in other country, it is not good for IR as well, even if one is a rating and the other is licence; always ATPL it is.
Anyway, get information from CAA is always good, but in the JARs I've don't found anything regarding prohibitions.
Follow what EGNATIA AVIATION in greece wrote to me:
There is no problem completing your ATPLs in the UK and do the practical and skill test here in Greece. Greek and UK CAA have a mutual agreement to accept each others examination results. We do that all the time so there is really not a problem
And what CATS (cranfield ATPL's in UK) wrote:
My question:
If I do ATPL there in UK with CATS is it compulsory for me do CPL (flight exam) there in UK or can I make practice exame in Spain or Greece? answer:
Yes students have done their CPL / IR in Spain or Greece
Flights schools or ground schools can not lie....they can make it better than what is, but don't give wrong informations.
Anyway, I wait last answer from UK CAA, but I'm quiete sure.
