Originally Posted by
horus23
It could be. But it's Florida...
In FAA's website when you search for the FSDO you find that there are 3. The one in Orlando doesn't do license conversion (it' written there);
The one in Tampa I couldn't reach by phone, but its written there that you could do it directly with a DPE;
Miramar answered that they no longer do it, and I was told that the DPE would need a $250 for the service.
You know, if it's a federal fee for the service I would understand, but I don't get it why the FSDO is addressing people to the DPEs and they are charging all this money to do something that the FSDO could do in few minutes.
https://www.fliegen-usa.de/formalita...ng-validation/
Friend of mine did it recently with them, examiner fee was waaaaay less than the described 250, I believe he had an admin fee for the flight school cuz they did lots of the processing plus the usual stuff for the Flight Review (which was probably well warranted to get comfortable with flying outside of Europe). Sorry it's in German :-).