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Old 3rd Feb 2012, 03:57
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SloppyJoe
 
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You have an EU passport so if an application requires you to be legal to work in a country it means if it is not a place zondaracer listed you are out of luck.

Many people end up in the middle east or asia with EU passports but if you look at the requirements for those jobs, being legal to work in the country is not one of them. They can do this as they have experience that can not be found in the employers country.

You will not be able to work in the US unless you do a degree program that has a year of work experience attached and then it is ONLY as a flight instructor at one specific school.

I was in the same situation as you and you will need to find N reg aircraft in Europe to fly. Not an easy task so suggest you start hitting the ATPL theory ASAP.

You will not be able to get a work permit without a job, AUS is an exception depending on your age but you dont have an AUS license. If you are now thinking well maybe can get another job and then use that work permit to apply for flying stuff you will find that your permit will be issued with the condition of working for the employer it was issued for only.

To be honest it is how it should be, unskilled or low experience jobs should be offered to people of the region where the job is. If it can't be filled then look at expats.

There are very few exceptions, a couple of countries in Africa, but many of those jobs are now becoming for locals only and work permits are harder to obtain.
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