Hi,
I am in Florida at the moment taking my FAA licence, the only thing is the weather is rubbish and I have has three check-rides cancelled! Am now taking check ride hopefully on Wednesday!!! I can convert to JAR really easily when I return to the uk, but dont see any point as the restrictions are far less the on a JAR or JAA licence. Pick the right school, do loads of home work, make sure the school teach's you ground school as the school I have been to only gives you DVD's to learn from, it makes things alot harder!
I have been told that the African and austrialian licence's arent worth much in the uk, asia or europe so be careful.
Best of luck