Now.
There is not much point in getting a full CPL IR that is not recognised in the UK.
The UK CAA does not list any Czech schools but then the only one it does list that is not on these shores is BAE in Jerez.
My understanding is that there are effectively 15 JAA member states for Wannabes, i.e. ones that can issue licenses acceptable to the other 14. Not all of the 15 have got their act together yet to actually do this in practice to make things even murkier!
The 15 states are:
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
UK
Now, bear with me here... There are actually a whole lot more states "in the JAA" or in the process of joining. These are:
(Asterisk means they are candidate members)
Estonia *
Latvia *
Lithuania *
Poland
Ukraine *
Albania *
Bulgaria *
Croatia *
Cyprus *
Czech Rep
Former
Yugoslav
Republic of
Macedonia *
Republic of
Moldova *
Hungary
Malta
Monaco
Romania
Slovak Rep *
Slovenia
Turkey
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Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
UK
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Iceland
Switzerland
Norway
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So. The Czech Republic is "in the JAA" and may well be able to claim they are "JAA Approved" or whatever.
But. The facts seem to suggest though that a Czech issued CPL IR will be of little use at your Virgin Atlantic interview.
Beware trying to find shortcuts or exotic schemes for making training cheaper. They generally only work if you are the first to find them and you never are. A PPL and 100hrs in somewhere like South Africa can save you some money but brings with it a few downsides.
There is no Right Answer else everyone would be doing the same thing and we could just put a sticky up at the top of the Wannabes Forum and there never would be any threads on training routes ever again.
DO beware though. In this industry there are people with fins on their backs who live on Wannabes money.
Good luck,
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