FAA licensed flying commercially in UK

[Chris Lock]

Does anybody know the rules regarding flying
commercially in the UK with an FAA license?
Anyone ever heard of any American pilots
based over there?
Have seen a few N reg aircraft that are based
over there, who owns em, Yanks or Brits?
Does a pilot have to be FAA certified to fly
an N reg over there? Does an FAA certified
pilot need to convert to fly UK/Europe registered aircraft? Whew! Got all that?
I am FAA, Comm/ATP, Gulfstream II typed,
currently flying in US, would love to be
based in England one day, can qualify for
British passport. News? Views? Cheers!

[3db]

Don't forget the "VP" reg. Lots of bus jets are on it. VP accept FAA qualified pilots without any problems.

[Chris Lock]

Cool! I did not know that.
:D

[LRdriver]

You can fly here in éurope with an FAA lic on a N-reg aircraft. Most of the N reg you see are privately owned and are crewed by commercial pilots. The issue arises,(as it did for euro pilots in the US) with the work permit. Sort that one out and there are no probs. PS alot of N reg small GA aircraft fly around with FAA PPL+IFR rated pilots due to the stupid JAA regs pertaining to this.(not like the states where they advocate all having IFR ratings..)
I started flying here with a small outfit with my FAA ATP on a bizjet(N-reg) whilst getting my euro conversion.

[Chris Lock]

Well, I can qualify for a British passport
so I dont think the work permit thing would
be a problem. Are you British, LR? Was the
bizjet you were on yank or brit owned?
Thanx for the info, cheers!

[Cathar]

3db

VP is not a single register. It is a prefix used by certain of the UK's overseas territories (eg VP-B is Bermuda and VP-C is the Cayman Islands)which run their own separate registers.