I am now in the USA.
I was at the FAA office yesterday getting my FAA piggy back licence change to the EASA new prefixed one.
I asked the FAA officer, who incidentally used to own his own flying school & was an instructor/examiner, if he could tell me the ruling on the biennial flight review.
He printed off for me the instruction where it points out that all pilots with an FAA licence of any description MUST undertake a Biennial Flight Review.
Google document 8900.1 CHG0 volume 5 chapter 2 section 14 5-603 procedures, information I
Reads as follows;
Discuss Relevent Regulations with Applicant.
Advise the applicant about the rules ans requirements contained in part61 and in part91 (flight review requirements, regency of experience requirements, log book entries, etc.) As a point of a
Emphasis, make clear to the applicant that a flight review (see 61.56) must be administered by the holder of an FAA flight instructor certificate with the appropriate ratings before he/she may exercise the privileges of his/her U.S pilot certificate. The proficiency checks administered by a foreign flight instructor do not count as meeting the flight review requirements of 61.56.
I pointed out the wording on the back of the plastic licence, where it states all privileges of the pilots home country licence apply, which I pointed out that "some" believe that the two year SEP revaluation applies as a biennial, he states that this is not the case.
Those on here who have been pointing out that it's needed, are right & need to be believed, if you are flying an N reg in the UK on your FAA licence & take it overseas, without completing or having an indate FAA biennial, you may invalidate your insurance & find yourself in trouble, if you happen to be subject to a ramp check & the person conducting it picks it up.
Hope this helps to clarify & backs up what has been said on here & other threads where arguments & dought has been cast.
My flight review was booked before I came out here not as an afterthought from this meeting.
Cheers T