Getting your GACA type rating on FAA license

[GooneyCaptain]

I have researched the topic extensively. It's not that there is no information available, it's that it's so contradictory.

I have a type rating from GACA and I would like to get it on my FAA license (for portability reasons). What's the easiest? I heard stories where guys were supposedly able to do it with some local FSDO - paperwork only.

Can someone PM me please. Thank you.

John

[NGFellow]

The easiest is to contact a FAR 142 training organization (CAE, FSI) and enroll in the short course for your type rating. If you do not hold any US Airman Certificate you will have to do a foreign license verification, TSA check if you are a non-citizen and take the appropriate ATP written exam. I know guys who have done this concurrently with their GACA or other ICAO recurrents. However, you have to plan for extra time to complete the entire footprint for the FAA course and it is unlikely that your company will pay for the extra ground schools and simulator required. To the best of my knowledge the FAA does not do a paperwork transfer of type ratings at the FSDO level.

[NGFellow]

See a similar thread in the North American forum--ICAO type rating to FAA.

[GooneyCaptain]

Thank you.