Willygig,
I dont want to get used to it too get a licence, I have an APTL and fly a 737-800 for the obvious carrier in the UK!
I also have a FAA CPL and CFI with all the trimmings and love the FARAIM and miss using it on a daily basis instructing, it was so easy to point people in the right directing, I sooooooooooo cant get on with the JAA system even after hundreds of hours Jet time all over europe,,,,
I refer you to my original comment,,,, bring the FARAIM over here and convert it to JAA language, how much easyier would that make life,,, and how many pointless threads could be removed from PPRUNE because of it!
on the original note, I see we have an answer for the Ground school ATPL's before PPL,,, cant be done,,, shame as the original poster was hoping to get all the bullcrap out the way before going to the USA to justfly fly fly and get it done in minimal time.