Well, to be honest, I was just posting a theoretical question, I currently posses an FAA Commercial Single & Multi, with an IR and I am just finishing up my CFI rating. I am just trying to establish what I am looking at for my planned return to the UK in the next few years.
Once I have the minimums required for an FAA ATP I will go ahead and do that, closely followed by self-study for the JAA ATPL written exams. There is a 50% chance I will be doing my FAA ATP at the same time as a biz-jet TR. As I understand it, the ATPL conversion requires me to do the skills test in the same type in order to carry over the TR, otherwise I do it in a light twin and have no TR on my JAA ATPL. I did not realise that there are different types of IR you can do under JAA, the FAA IR is done as a single pilot, but is equally valid in a multi crew environment. So I might have to do two different types of IR skills test, Sindle Pilot and Multi Crew, before starting the different FI courses. Is this correct?
Maybe the instructor conversion isn't as worth it as I originally thought...