I went to my flying club today, who do all manner of flight training, and said "I want to convert my FAA IR to JAA" and they said "sure, you can do it by the 15 hr route". But then the examiner came back and said that a
private IR is no more
, one won't be issued. To get an IR now, whether converting or doing one from scratch it appears that I have to take the CPL ground exams, the CPL GFT and hence get a CPL. Not to mention the fact that I would need a class 1 medical. So as you can imagine I said bollo*ks to that idea....
Something interesting though, apparently the JAA IWR is in the pipeline. I was advised to make sure I kept my IMC rating current as existing IMC holders will have grandfather rights.....I thought the IWR had died a death before it even got off the ground, but the person I spoke to was adamant that one would be appearing soon.....
Anyone know anything about this??
Cheers
EA
