PPL??????????

[172driver]

let's provide correct info

Paratrooper has come here looking for info, so let's at least try to be correct. Took a minute to look up the relevant info in LASORS.

Flying training: a holder of an ICAO license who has flown a minimum of 100 hours PIC only needs to pass the skills test.

Theoretical exams: same 100 hours, then you only have to do Air Law, Human Factors and the RT license.

Reference for above LASORS C1.2 and C1.3

So, I'd say - again - go for the FAA PPL, fly your 100 hours and then do the above. Voila! You've got both JAR and FAA.

There's actually another advantage to having the FAA license also. If you intend to fly in countries that require a validation of your license (SA, OZ, etc), then it's a lot quicker, easier and cheaper to validate the FAA one. This from own experience.

[BackPacker]

There's actually another advantage to having the FAA license also. If you intend to fly in countries that require a validation of your license (SA, OZ, etc), then it's a lot quicker, easier and cheaper to validate the FAA one. This from own experience.

Good point. But this only works if your FAA PPL is valid - meaning you've done a BFR in the last two years.

To find an FAA instructor and do a BFR, only to avoid a bit of paperwork to get the UK-issued JAA PPL validated seems a bit over the top.

But yes, if you fly N-regs regularly and thus have to keep an FAA PPL valid in any case the validation procedure for FAA looks simpler than the UK JAA one. Basically because the folks in Oklahoma don't take privacy as seriously as the UK CAA so you don't have to give them permission to release your personal details to the SA or OZ CAA.

[172driver]

But yes, if you fly N-regs regularly and thus have to keep an FAA PPL valid in any case the validation procedure for FAA looks simpler than the UK JAA one. Basically because the folks in Oklahoma don't take privacy as seriously as the UK CAA so you don't have to give them permission to release your personal details to the SA or OZ CAA.

Not only that - the process is also much quicker (and free on the FAA end).

[LH2]

Great. So you're in Italy with your G-reg aircraft and SA PPL & Medical, and you're being ramp-checked by an official who barely speaks English. Not my type of fun, even though technically the combo is indeed legal.

That's not a problem at all! All you need to do is shout louder than him and gesticulate more.

[aprildavy]

Yes, the PPL can be done in 28 days - I did my 35 hour PPL in 1976 in 8 days, at Edinburgh, in the summer. It was extremely intensive. I doubt you will do it in 3 weeks if you cannot commit to be being at the club from dawn till dusk every day. The club will need to commit in a similar fashion - you will need an instructor committed to just you, or perhaps one other, plus of course a plane committed to you (maybe one other).
Nobody can guarantee a 4 week PPL. There may be unexpected weather etc, so if doing it abroad, consider how it will be possible to continue it later if for some reason if the training is interrupted.

[atceng]

Things must have changed at Edinburgh,when I turned up midweek last year to enquire about PPL/NPPL,I was advised to go to Glenrothes or Cumbernauld where it would take half as long and cost a third less.Maybe I got off on the wrong foot with the CFI as I interrupted his game of patience on the PC,but I should thank him and the club as they gave me probably the best advice, which I followed.After watching it take 20mins from request to actual take off for a club A/C I can understand his reluctance to let me waste my time and money at Edinburgh.

atceng