flyer4life,
Thanks for filling in the bits I couldn't quite remember! Agree with everything you say, except for one bit:
Your JAA licence will be the same as one gained from a £60k integrated course
This isn't quite true, unfortunately. If you have a JAR IR which was converted from an ICAO IR, your license will state this fact. And, unlike all other JAR ratings, JAR-compliant countries other than the one which issued the conversion are
not obliged to recognise a converted IR.
I have not yet heard any stories about anyone who's gone this route, so I don't know whether it would be an issue in practice. But in theory, if you get an FAA IR and then convert it in the UK, France (for example) would not be obliged to recognise your converted IR - and if they choose not to, this would prevent you from getting a job in a French airline.
This is the only example I know of where a JAR license/rating isn't required to be recognised by other JAR states.
FFF
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