FAA Licence

[freds]

Hi

I would really appreciate it if anyone can give me the definitive answer to my conundrum......I have a JAA frozen ATPL and am type rated on the HS-125.....I need to get an FAA licence to enable me to fly N reg aircraft as a FO commercially.
Is it just a case of doing the written Commercial and Instrument exams and then taking an LPC on an N reg 125 or sim, or do I need to do a commercial flight test first. I know you don't if you have an ATPL but as I have said mine is frozen. Have spoken to everyone including FAA but still can't seem to get definitive answer.
Sorry about long winded question but I need the right answer before I start spending lots of cash!

[Mal_206]

Hi Freds
I had to do the same thing.

Firstly I had my foreign licence verified by faxing FAA the relevant forms from their website, then they contact your CAA and verify your licence.
this takes 2-3 months. You get the letter in the post.

Then once in the states to do my Type rating I went to the FAA office with my verification letter and they gave me a restricted FAA PPL based on my foregn Comm licence but had to write an Insrument exam (IFP).

Once I'd completed the training/test on the Sim, the type was put on that license, then went to complete the FAA Comm elsewhere.

I also could not get answers either even from FAA.

Good luck and ENJOY :ok:

[CPTA]

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Good Luck:ok:

[B200Drvr]

I have also just done this and there is no easy way, although ther is a cheaper way, Simcom offers the full 800A type with 700 differences for $15300, if you do it without the 700 diffs or you do it with XP diffs it is $18K
So get the PPL validated at a FSDO, Get your TSA stuff sorted after you have booked the full type at Simcom (cant be done other way around),if you meet the requirements for FAA ATP/ comm then sit the test in Blighty before you leave. HS 125 Course is 16 days at the facitliy in Orlando, and the type rating checkride includes the ATP check. I was in and out in 20 days including the fingerprints which I did at Pan Am in Miami as I was leaving from Africa.
Good luck, its a great course and great machine

[Martin Barnes]

Had you though about sitting the atp writtens and then opening your atp on a cheap piston twin. you could then get the the captain of your 125 to train you for the sic rating which you can do anywhere,

[freds]

Thanks Mal_206, that is what I thought. I want to avoid the costs of doing a course in the sim as I have a plane that I can do the LPC on. When you say you went somewhere else to do the commercial, are you talking about a flight test or the commercial written exams?