SA to EUR licence conversion
Hi,
I would like to know what the requirements are for converting a South African CPL(h) licence to a European or JAR licence. We have survey contracts coming up in Europe and Northern Africa and would like to make use of European helicopters from Italy, France and/or other European countries.
The only other way we could use those helicopters are by hiring a pilot with the helicopter and use him as an observer to be allowed to fly those helicopters. Unfortunately the costs of that start becoming too high.
So does one just get a validation for the specific country's helicopters you use or is there a general licence one could validate to in order to fly all EU machines?