Hope for ICAO IR holders
There maybe good news on the way for us poor sods who have 000's hours and non-UK IR's who are trying to convert to JAR IR's. I am hoping in the next few days to get confirmation from the CAA that I can do a non-approved (ie. discretion of the FTO) IR course as I have a FAA IR which of course they seem to think is worthless. Unfortunately I have already wasted loads of money on totally unnecessary training here in the UK, but to those who are thinking of starting the conversion - get your FTO to talk to the CAA and just express how ridiculous this situation is at the moment.