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Try reading JAR-FCL It spells it out for you in App 1 to JAR-FCL 1.055. CPL/IR based on national Knowledge convers to JAR-FCL CPL/IR with No ATPL Credit. So if you don't retain your national licence until you get the 500 hors MPA, you will have to take the JAR-FCL ATPL exams. Its quite straight forward. The messsage is: don't convert and retain your credit.
[This message has been edited by Noggin (edited 25 March 2001).]