Originally Posted by SoCal App
To me (just my opinion) this seems a very expensive way of doing things. If you have no real need for maintaining FAA certs, then I would simply suggest only doing the JAA and saving conversions costs until absolutely necessary.
It worked out to be about the same. It is because FAA training is slightly less expensive than the JAA. Also, as for the JAA route, the ME-IR can only be done in a JAA state, so if I were to do the JAA route in the US, it would have to be JAA CPL MEP + FAA IR then back to the UK for the JAA MEIR conversion. Most importantly FAA PPL-IR-CPL MEP takes ~ 6 months whilst the JAA (FAA PPL, IR -JAA CPL ME, ATPL ground) takes ~ more than 12 months without the conversion.
Originally Posted by zondaracer
There are quite a few foreign students in Arizona as well, and not just the Lufthansa and Oxford guys.
Any recommendation for FTOs in Arizona? How's the weather like in there?
Please feel free to correct me and constructive criticism is always welcome
Thanks