Guys, I'm travelling to the USA next week for a three weeks family vacation and am wondering whether I could easily get a FAA license to complete my current EASA PPL. More precisely:
- is additional training required, or is it just a bueraucratic operation?
- would that be a standalone FAA PPL or "only valid with valid EASA PPL + medical" ?
- will a current EASA typrating (HU269) be incorporated automatically?
- where should I go to to get that done efficiently?
- how would I extend/renew/refresh such an FAA license? Is refreshing the EASA PPL here in Austria sufficient?
- whats the cost? (one time, and annually)
I'm just thinking of adding an FAA PPL, I'm very certain that this family vacation will leave almost no place to actually rent an S300C, but in the very unlikely event that I indeed might get a round to it,
- will I be able to rent a bird, being that "foreign vacation euro dude"?
- will I be able to get insurance? (or is it typically included in the lease rate in US)
- where might my chance to become airborne be the greatest? (rental car course planned from LGB to SanDiego to LAS, uncontrolled aerodrome preferred
)