FAA CPL/IR TK in the UK

[collywolly21]

Hi All

Please except my apologies if this has been done before, I have done a search without much joy.

Can anyone please tell me if it is possible to do the FAA CPL and IR theoretical knowledge ground school followed by the exams here in the UK?.

Due to work I will be unable to go over to the USA to do them, I was hoping to get them done before going over for the flying training.

Thank you again

[zondaracer]

The answer is yes. You just need to find either an FAA CFI or AGI, or you can do an online course that issues a completion certificate which will allow you to take the exam. There is a testing center at Flight Safety in Farnborough.

[Midland Transport]

I used groundschoolacademy.com they are pretty good, and took the exams at Flight Safety Farnbourough.

[custardpsc]

collywolly, when you say 'if this has been done before' did your search not produce your very own identical question in an identical thread on the matter that was answered not two weeks ago ? http://www.pprune.org/professional-pilot-training-includes-ground-studies/513681-faa-cpl-ir-tk-uk.html

Were the answers there not satisfactory ? or are you now asking about groundschool as well as exams?might have been better to post the query in your existing thread if so to avoid confusion. Anyhow, the answer to groundschool is that everyone buys the gleim cpl question book and studies it regardless of where they are taking the exam. The advice remains the same - the exam is much easier to pass once you have done some flying in the usa. Also the written is trivial in comparison to the oral. If you are prepared for the oral, the written is merely 90 mins at a computer the week before the checkride.

[collywolly21]

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Custardpsc, yes your advice and answers where very helpful and fully taken on board.

I appreciate that things may be a little easier once I have done some flying in the U.S. It was the ground school I was after and apologise for any misunderstanding that my first post caused.

Thanks again for your help. I promise to buck up or I will buck off......:ok:

[custardpsc]

No worries. The best thing you can do is to study for the oral, really. I considered exactly the same route as you and I decided it was too much like hard work in the uk, plus the cost at farnborough and getting an entry signoff and timings etc. I had a slight advantage in that I had already taken the written once a long time ago so I do know its not hard and could wait til I was back in the usa. In fact I sat ppl, ppl h cpl and cpl h all on the same day - I was young and keen back then, but it shows the writtens are really not hard. Just buy the gleim book or look for questions on the web, and read the fars, sit it at your school after you have been in the usa flying for two weeks and its just an hour or two out of your life. The oral is a lot harder, and you can only prepare for that by proper study and immersion in the flying environment, but its the same sylabus, so dont fret about the written, focus on the oral and the written will fall into place. Besides gleim and the fars,the FAA have a good set of free publications, look on their website here

Handbooks & Manuals (http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/)

Some stuff you just have to learn when you are there, like maintenance records etc, and some of it gets covered as you fly anyhow. Hope it works out for you.

[collywolly21]

Custardpsc

Thanks for your time in replying.

I am in Florida for 2-3 weeks in December, I will work hard to get things in place for then.

Thanks again.