If you want to convert your FAA to KCAA you must be a risk taker if you are foreign..the conversion cost can run up to $USD 4-5000..plus staying and sundry expenses. How do you feel about the fact that many Kenyan pilots are unemployed and have petitioned the Ministry of Labour and KCAA against allow foreign pilots coming to take up employment?
It is still cheaper for Kenyan operators to "import" experienced foreign pilots who have type-specific experience and convert their licences to KCAA than to pay for Kenyan pilots to go overseas for type-ratings.
I agree, however, that there is little point in low-time foreign pilots without type-ratings coming to Kenya nowadays. For low-timer jobs, much better to employ Kenyan pilots who know the local weather and terrain, and who have been trained to fly at the madness of Wilson...