IR Training and Skill Test abroad

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If you do your CPL or IR test in another memberstate then the licensing state, you pay the testfee of the country where you do the test. You pay the license issuing fee to the memberstate that issues the license.

Actually things have become incredibly easy and much better under EASA. Y
ou can do the training anywhere in Europe, at any EASA certified FTO and have the license issued by any authority, as long as that authority holds your medical file.

So if you are from the UK and do the test in Belgium, you pay the Belgian testfee for the CPL or IR test. Then you take the paperwork the UK CAA who will issue you the license or put the rating in your license. They will charge you the standard license/rating issue.

This is how it works and it will change the industry. You can now finally look for the best training options anywhere in the EU, do the training and test there but have the license issued by the state where you reside.

Training and testfees varry hugely along the different memberstates so if you are intending to do any flighttraining it is time to start shopping around! Plus you do not need to do the CPL anymore in the same country where you do the ATPL theory, that is something from the past, so also there you can start choosing the best place to do the different parts of training.