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Old 10th June 2009 | 09:53
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LH2
 
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Aerodynamics Malaga is not licensed by the UK CAA.
Correct. It's a Spanish FTO so it appears on the list of FTOs at the DGAC website (Ministerio de Fomento, actually)

If you decide to do your IR conversion with Aerodynamics Malaga in Spain, you will be issued with a JAR Instrument Rating issued by the Spanish DGAC.
Negative. The IR is issued by your JAA licencing authority. If you have got a UK/French/Norwegian/whatever JAR licence, it goes into that.

Bubi,

1) Does the flight school need to be a CAA approved FTO? Can it just be a JAA approved FTO from another country? Where can you find a list of approved CAA FTO?
The general rule is that if you have a JAR licence, you can add ratings to it obtained in any other JAR country. There are copious exceptions to this rule if the issuing authority of your licence are the French DGAC (they are sort of in their own world), and to some extent other JAR authorities have their own peculiarities.

2) If you train in a country other than UK, how is the conversion process to have the CAA license? Is this just paperwork?
When you have completed your training, you send the paperwork to the CAA along with your credit card number (very important), and the rating gets added to your licence.

3) Do you need to have a CAA examiner for your skill test or can it be an examiner from another State?
In the case of a UK-issued JAR licence, it can be any suitably qualified JAR examiner. The only difficulty I have found once was trying to persuade a continental examiner that yes, he could sign a revalidation directly on my UK licence. I had to ring Gatwick and get the CAA bloke to tell the examiner to go ahead and sign the bloody licence.

I see Malaga Aerodynamics have their own Spanish examiners. Is this an issue for the UK CAA?
Nope.
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