Hopeless
It's just about hopeless. I am currently going through the process and about to give up!..it's a joke!.
First you go to the FAA site and download a heap of forms to send to them together with a copy of your licence. You would need to phone them to confirm they have received them..they won't ask you!.The FAA then send a letter to CASA for confirmation of the copies you sent them . (In my case they lost them somewhere). Then you pay $50 for CASA to confirm your information to the FAA ( That took another month). Then you will eventually, if your lucky, get a verification letter from the FAA to take to a local FAA Flight Services Office (FSO) of your choice for the issuance of a Temporary Airmans Certificate. In my case that FSO has decided they cant do it until further notice as they are too busy and I now have to find a delagate!!!!. If you make it this far you can start booking flight check etc..