I did my conversion about 3 years ago cost about £14000 but I know a bloke who converted after me to an Irish licence which cost far less. As mentioned up a few posts there is a requirement for 15 hours IFR which is where the biggest cost comes in but from memory that isn't needed for the Irish licence, just the IFR flight test along with the commercial flight test I think. The Irish licence can then be converted to a British one, worth looking into anyway.

152jockey

...all the best,and hope you get what you "really" want......

....bottom line,this whole conversion thing is a crock of ****e......quite a few of us here fly in Airspace,foreign and local........ with as many as 12+ different foreign Airlines all heading to the same airports,all in the same airspace ,all taking on the same freq,s......etc etc blah blah...........and dont have any problems at all.....(well ,there are some who arent the fulll can of baked beans)......just proves one standard system would work just fine...


.....my ATPL works just fine in the US...CANADA....MEXICO...South America...Europe....etc etc....never had any problems..... my original ATPL was issued in kiwi......reckon thats proves my argument right there.....

152 Jockey, Check out Western Australian Aviation College. I have been giving thought to the JAR conversion for a few years now and as has been mentioned it is not cheap nor a quick process, HOWEVER the more flying experience you have the better........

If you have 3000hrs Jet + 1500pic Jet (I think over 30,000kg?) the conversion is pretty simple but thats probably a way off for you just yet......

Its not too bad either if you have an ATPL and a bit of time on turboprops in NZ. 14 exams need to be done which you can do via correspondance and make 3 trips to Perth to sit the exams and you also need to do 15hrs I/F and an IFR flight test and CPL handling test....... Because this can be done in Perth I budgeted on NZ$15k which of course involved using annual leave from work and staff travel.
Down side for me however was that I wasnt 100% sure I wanted to go over there anyway so it was alot of work and $$$ which may have been for nothing, and also there seemed to be a theme of I would need to by a 737 or a320 type rating when I got there so for the time being I will stay in the southern hemisphere.

Thanks again to all of you out there passing on your experiences. I think Pakeha-Boy hit the nail on the head with his 'crock of ****' comment. Its a shame that good old honest living pilots have to jump through so many hoops and spend so much moolah just to fly a plane registered in a different country!:ugh:
Thinking I will plan on staying in the South or Asia to build up my hours before considering the UK. As long as I'm enjoying the ride of course - lets just hope this 'pilot shortage' is a reality when I'm looking to move up! :ok: