Help! Looking for flight school
 

Hello

Looking at converting my ICAO CPL to the FAA and doing the CTP/ATP course and gaining my FAA ATPL.

Can somebody recommend a great school that offers these services.

Kind regards

I'm guessing you hold a CASA license as ICAO doesn't issue licenses. The FAA does not convert commercial licenses. You can have your CAA verify your license to the FAA and use it to meet the ATP requirement to hold a commercial with an IR. There are only 8 approved CTP programs for pilots not in a college program or airline employee.

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/..._Providers.pdf

You'll also have to pass a TSA background check.

Bk84,

Just find out what US regional some of your countrymen are flying for and apply there. From the sound of it, they'll take care of all that licensing stuff for you...save a lot of money. ;-))

That ATP-CTP course alone runs about $5K.

If you can get an e3 visa, SkyWest will hire you and put you through the ATP/CTP course, but license conversion will be on your own. There are literally hundreds of schools where you can do this.

zonda,

VH DSJ said this in post #104 of this thread:

http://www.pprune.org/australia-new-...taslink-6.html

"And you don't need an FAA license when applying either. When you do the checkride for the type rating (which the airline pays for), that checkride can be used to convert your Australian license to the FAA."

Is it possible people are encountering different situations at different regionals and/or FSDOs re licensing ? Or have I misinterpreted his statement ?

He didn't specify whether he was speaking from direct personal experience.