I presume you have the right to live and work in the US? If so, go for it. As far as aircraft go, time is time, it doesn't matter where you log it or what country the aircraft is registered in as long as it's a recognised type in the other region. Technically at this moment you don't have to have EASA tickets to fly privately in the UK but that may very well change very soon. Certainly for IFR things have moved in that direction with various compromise proposals being touted such as the Enroute Instrument Rating, Competence based Instrument Rating etc...and all 3rd country certificated pilots will have to get one of these IR's to fly IFR. You need to look up the details. For VFR it's a little bit further off but it looks like it may well be coming and you'll need EASA tickets. You'll probably be exempted from taking the full courses. I haven't been following it for a few months so I don't know the latest but there was a guy on here, Peter something or other, who was very well informed of all the ins and outs of the whole FAA-EASA thing. I think in the end he actually ended up getting a full EASA IR just to save himself trouble in the future.
Last edited by banjodrone; 29th December 2014 at 16:21.