Thanks Neil,
Ill have a good scan of LASORS but had in my mind 40hrs of the FAA IR stood towards the issue of the JAR IR. The thing which may have made a difference would have been any minimum requirements for commencing the FAA rating vs the JAR one, therefore it might have been a good thing to do in the US tagged onto hour building.
With regards to converting a CPL done abroad, it was my intention to complete it at a JAR school stateside.
Interesting point about FlyBe, although I can see that the IR and CPL would be the obvious ones to watch to demonstrate quality of training.
Thanks again,
Rich
PS, I recall a website which listed who was recruiting and what they required as Im not really revealing many small airline/turbo prop type jobs, what are the favourite job sites?