Ian Seager
No, I have done my FAA 2 years ago in Orlando and they wanted to see FAA Medical. I had my CAA with me but they were not interested. I fly an 'N' Reg. and was told by an instructor that I need to have FAA medical in order to fly it legally outside the UK. From all the other replies it seems that not many know the real requirments. Will you run an article about it? By the way, I am sure that you remember the Pilot v. Flyer thread. I was not one of your supporters, ... I have bought the Dec. issue of Flyer and it was much better than at the past and I did enjoy reading it. There is still room for improvement but even Rome was not built in one day.
The Flying I
To the best of my knowledge the answer is NO. There is a guy in Germany that can do it, but there is another way.
I know that one of the top men in the FAA came over and issue FAA PPL here. All that you/we need is to pay $65 for the paperwork and min. number of interested people should be 10. He also can carry out the bi-annual, initial CPL/IR tests etc.