Originally Posted by
havick
No extra amount of training at all to switch an Aussie license over, your type ride in the Sim is your FAA ATP ride. The only added requirement is the TSA approval for the sim training and the FAA letter of verification of your foreign license.
So essentially it's no different to any other new hire joining a regional training wise except for about or month of paperwork with TSA and the FAA prior to beginning training.
The only FAA certificate that can be acquired without testing is a single engine PPL with no Instrument rating. -
Are you assuming that they will allow a pilot to begin training with zero FAA certificates, or only a FAA PPL with no IR ? That may be the case, but Mesas page says a CPL is required. That cannot be done with a straight paper exercise.
The letter of verification allows a foreign pilot to gain a 'piggybacked' FAA PPL. With no Istrument Rating. If the pilot wants an IR added a written test is required (Instrument test for foreign pilots). That's as far as you can go license wise, without a flight test and further written exams.