So here is the dilemma. I will soon start the IR (ME) on Senecas here in the UK, and need the multi rating and some time (15 hrs should do it) on the Seneca.
First problem: I am morally opposed to paying £207-£270/hour here (Headcorn-Fairoaks) when it is so much cheaper in the US. I already have my FAA single engine licence (converted from my CAA licence several years ago) and love flying around the Bahamas.
But I cannot find a school in Florida that has both (a) JAA approval for a multi rating, and (b) Senecas. Ormond Beach, Naples, and Orlando all have Seminoles. Meanwhile Britannia and several others do have Senecas but are not expecting JAA approval until the new year.
1) Has anyone found a school in Florida doing JAA approved multi ratings on Senecas? How quick/easy is it then to hire a Seneca for x-country - do I need an FAA ME rating? Is that easy to get off my (then newly-acquired) JAA rating?
2) Has anyone obtained their multi rating here and then hired a Seneca in the US? Where from? How easy is it to get my FAA licence upgraded to multi? How long will it take? What are the pitfalls?
Over to you. Please help because I dont want yet more money to go to Oxford in Texas unless absolutely necessary!
p.s.
has anyone noticed how virtually EVERY US school wont return phone calls/emails. I am
staggered at how the training industry says it is in a "crisis", and yet I want to spend £££000s, and they cant even return phone calls. Unbelieveable.....