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I have US certificates. I have German licenses. I'm not trying to do the commonly seen here JAR-to-FAA conversion.
My German licenses were issued in 2012. They are "pre-EASA," to make up my own terminology.
I'm hoping to move back to Europe in the next couple years.
I paid a lot of money to get the German licenses to be comepletely independent of my US certificates. I would like to protect that investment. It will be much easier to be part of the conversion wave now than to fix it later.
I suspect the process for UK citizens to go UK -> EASA would be much the same as German -> EASA since the destination is the same, hence my question.
I no longer have a valid German medical; I do have a valid FAA medical. It makes no financial sense to fly to the UK to get a medical just so I can change issuing states. Although, if I could piggyback that with converting my glider flight instructor certificate to a BGA one I might do it.