When they say "temporary" is it because it only is current while the associated foreign licence is current, or is it because they specify a duration? If the last, on what basis do they specify the duration?And can those temporary certificates be used to work?
Hi Victo
Temporary literally means temporary - they will issue this on a typewriter immediately after passing the flight test. It's valid for an indefinite period whilst the FAA make and ship your new plastic credit card style certificate.
Post 83-91 should interest you. It indeed looks as though the FAA will indeed now only give you a PPL certificate based upon the JAA CPL. This does mean you cannot work with this.
http://www.pprune.org/north-america/...ion-faa-5.html
Actions for you:
Contact FSDO to clarify.
Contact training centre to verify they can do a commercial checkride in sim.
Obtain FCC radio licence to fly N reg outside of USA.
Obtain class 1 medical. (Can be done in Europe, saves time)
Get Irvin Gleim Commercial/Instrument pilots study material, PTS, AIM etc.
Arrive in USA early, get training centre tobook you in for Commercial and Instrument written exams locally. Or do them at FSI Paris, save time and hassle?
You would come out of this with an unrestricted (not based on a foreign licence) FAA Commercial, Multi, IR w Citation type rating and could legally work immediately.