Recreational flying on a foreign ATPL
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Recreational flying on a foreign ATPL
Hello. I'll be visiting Melbourne early next year. I currently hold an ATPL with an A320 (P1) rating.
How difficult would it be to rent a Cessna or a something similar and go solo flying for a couple of hours?
Validation? Endorsements? Conversions?
How difficult would it be to rent a Cessna or a something similar and go solo flying for a couple of hours?
Validation? Endorsements? Conversions?
CASA-wise, a validation, have a look at their web site.
As for the rest, a bit dependent on what whoever is "potentially" hiring you an aircraft demands.
If it really is only a few hours, you may be better of hiring with a pilot ---- plus cost of pilot minus cost of frustration and time wasting --- a cost/benefit exercise.
Depending on the "where" an ASIC card might also be an issue.
Tootle pip!!
Circa 2000, It used to be quite a simple exercise 
If you held a current ICAO PPL + Medical you rocked up at the local CASA office and parted with 50 of our Aussie dollars.
In return you got a Special Pilots Licence issued in perpetuity (Issued on the spot
)
This entitled you to fly SE VFR by day <5700KG with the licence validity being contingent to your foreign credentials being current.
A quick search of the CASA website seems to indicate that post Part 61, this seem to be no longer the case
Good luck
BAz
If you held a current ICAO PPL + Medical you rocked up at the local CASA office and parted with 50 of our Aussie dollars.
In return you got a Special Pilots Licence issued in perpetuity (Issued on the spot
)This entitled you to fly SE VFR by day <5700KG with the licence validity being contingent to your foreign credentials being current.
A quick search of the CASA website seems to indicate that post Part 61, this seem to be no longer the case
Good luck
BAz
Since “harmonising with ICAO” guidelines the process of flying in Australia on a foreign licence has gone from quick and simple to almost unworkable. ICAO say you should be able to rock up and go flying if you hold a licence issued by an ICAO compliant authority, however CASA want all sorts of hurdles jumped.
Heres a link to the application form. I’ve had people tell me it takes up to 3 months to process.
Heres a link to the application form. I’ve had people tell me it takes up to 3 months to process.
Since “harmonising with ICAO” guidelines the process of flying in Australia on a foreign licence has gone from quick and simple to almost unworkable. ICAO say you should be able to rock up and go flying if you hold a licence issued by an ICAO compliant authority, however CASA want all sorts of hurdles jumped.
Based on experience, the two big hurdles are the ASIC/AVID and the need for the Authority that issued the original license to be validated confirming direct to CASA that the applicant exists and the licence is genuine.
A policy based on every foreign pilot is probably a terrorist, and every foreign licence is probably a forgery is not a balanced policy.
This is what killed GA flying tourist groups in Australia, years ago it used to be quite big business, but Australian bureaucracy, mostly but not only CASA, killed it.
Tootle pip!!
