Adding my B777 Rating to my FAA ATPL?
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Adding my B777 Rating to my FAA ATPL?
Hi Guys and Girls,
Can anyone please advise the necessary steps to have my B777 Type from my GCAA ATPL also put onto my FAA ATPL.
I have a P1 Rating.
All info and advise welcome, including costs if anyone has done similar.
Many thanks,
Cav.
Can anyone please advise the necessary steps to have my B777 Type from my GCAA ATPL also put onto my FAA ATPL.
I have a P1 Rating.
All info and advise welcome, including costs if anyone has done similar.
Many thanks,
Cav.
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What I was told previously by the FAA, they will issue a P2 based on your foreign P1...if you want P1, take an oral and check ride.....
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Following on from that:
Does check ride mean an observed line check or sim (LPC) or something else?
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Are there any EK 777 qualified US checkers? I know we have US, but what quals?
H-D
Does check ride mean an observed line check or sim (LPC) or something else?
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Are there any EK 777 qualified US checkers? I know we have US, but what quals?
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The problem being you have to go through an approved course before you can do a type ride in the USA. The shortest approved course is Boeing's short course which is 15 days long and costs $15,000.
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Go to Canada, take an airlaw equivalency test, get a Canadian license. They will honor your GCAA ATPL with the type rating. Go to your local FISBO, they will honor the Candadian license and bingo...it's yours. At least that's what it used to be. Who really knows anymore.
And why would you really need it? Any carrier in the US that would hire you as pilot would have to put you through an FAA approved course anyway, thus you would get the type rating. That is unless you want to go fly in India, but then the GCAA would be adequate. I guess if you want to do ferry type work you wouild need it, but then you would have to drop 15-20 grand every six months to stay current. Just random thoughts.
And why would you really need it? Any carrier in the US that would hire you as pilot would have to put you through an FAA approved course anyway, thus you would get the type rating. That is unless you want to go fly in India, but then the GCAA would be adequate. I guess if you want to do ferry type work you wouild need it, but then you would have to drop 15-20 grand every six months to stay current. Just random thoughts.
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And why would you really need it?
ING idiots in the UK CAA are doing their best to decimate the expat licence holders and a US rating MAY be a better option 
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but then you would have to drop 15-20 grand every six months to stay current
Your annual check is good to keep your TR current as long as the sim and the TRI/E are FAA approved! Not that difficult in DXB sim center!
