NEDude

Hello all,

I am an FAA licensed ATP with multiple type ratings and currently flying the A320 in the USA. My fiancee is a Dane, lives in Copenhagen and works for SAS. I am trying to get my JAA ATPL and I am familiar with the process through the UK CAA and have talked with a few schools here in the USA who are approved UK CAA training providers. Does anyone know how the process works in Denmark? Is it the same? Can I do the written exams through the UK CAA and have them count in Denmark? How about the medical?

Sorry for my ignorance on this, been trying to do some research on this but cannot find much information through the Danish aviation authorities on the internet. Is there a good Danish website I can check out or a training provider in Denmark I should talk with?

Thanks

SAS-A321

I would suggest you do the conversion with the UK CAA instead of Denmark. Medical is 60% cheaper even with the flight included to Gatwick from Copenhagen and I think that license fees are cheaper aswell. Also the Danish CAA is very slow at responding to simple questions.
I do not think that the Danish flight schools have any or only little experience with converting from FAA to JAA.
Try to have a look at Icelandic Flight Academy or Keilir Aviation Academy in Iceland. They provide good training and are cheaper than in the UK, DK and I think even Florida.
I know that Icelandic Flight Academy have had quite a few students converting from FAA to JAA.

Are you sure you need to do any flight training? I know a MD11 Captain who is only doing a skills test in the simulator to convert his license.

aloha1985

Suggest Global Pilot Careers (they cooperate with Keilir Aviation Academy) or Copenhagen Air Taxi (have heard good things about their ATPL course!) for something more local.

NEDude

Thanks for the replies.

I think all I need to do is a sim ride, most likely in a 320 as that is what I am flying. I had a friend who just went through the process in the UK, she lives in Scotland now, and all she had to do was the written exams and a sim ride. She has been flying Dash 8's in the USA and that is what she did her ride on over in Europe. However she did her ride with a Danish examiner on a sim in Oslo.

I guess if it is cheaper to go through the UK or Iceland, then I will probably go through there.

Thanks again.

SAS-A321

If you are only doing theory and sim there is no reason for going to Iceland. Try do the theory with Copenhagen Air Taxi or do it with Bristol Ground School or Oxford in the UK. I can recommend you to buy access to Bristol Ground School's question data bank, as it is one of the best out there.

Oxford Aviation Academy have A320 sims in Stockholm, London Gatwick and Heathrow.

Also keep a look at Swedish Moose which is just starting up and currently looking for Line Training Captains, if you qualify for that. I have not heard if they are going to hire FOs.

NEDude

Don't think I would qualify for a line training captain position. I do not have much PIC time in the A320 and have never held a position like that. I am currently a sim instructor on the A320 and hope to move over to a line check airman position with my current company at some point.

Just want to make sure, if I do the exams through the UK CAA, can I do the sim ride with another authority, or does it also have to be done with the UK folks? Do all the European nations view the JAA ATPL the same regardless of the issuing country?

polazarus

Ask the caa you want to do the sim ride with.
If you're talking about a jaa license, then yes. If you're just talking about the atpl-exams, then no, that would depend on the caa.