FAA IEP Written Exam (EASA IR to FAA IR Conversion)
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Thanks for your answer.
So, if I read you well, as I have a stand alone PPL FAA, the only way to add an IR is to do the conversion of my EASA IR according to the TIP-L with written IEP + IPC (of course except a full FAA IR but this is not relevant here) ?
And the validation process related in 61.75 d) (" Instrument ratings issued. A person who holds an instrument rating on the foreign pilot license issued by a contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation may be issued an instrument rating on a U.S. pilot certificate provided...) is only true if the PPL itself was already a validated one through 61.75 ?
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Jifrisco
Hello Awair,
Thanks for your answer.
So, if I read you well, as I have a stand alone PPL FAA, the only way to add an IR is to do the conversion of my EASA IR according to the TIP-L with written IEP + IPC (of course except a full FAA IR but this is not relevant here) ?
And the validation process related in 61.75 d) (" Instrument ratings issued. A person who holds an instrument rating on the foreign pilot license issued by a contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation may be issued an instrument rating on a U.S. pilot certificate provided...) is only true if the PPL itself was already a validated one through 61.75 ?
Best regards,
Jifrisco
Thanks for your answer.
So, if I read you well, as I have a stand alone PPL FAA, the only way to add an IR is to do the conversion of my EASA IR according to the TIP-L with written IEP + IPC (of course except a full FAA IR but this is not relevant here) ?
And the validation process related in 61.75 d) (" Instrument ratings issued. A person who holds an instrument rating on the foreign pilot license issued by a contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation may be issued an instrument rating on a U.S. pilot certificate provided...) is only true if the PPL itself was already a validated one through 61.75 ?
Best regards,
Jifrisco
61.75(b)(3)
you can only get the the validation if you don't already hold a US certificate
61.75(d) is part of 61.75, so only refers to adding the IR to a 61.75 certificate.
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TIP-L EASA to FAA IR conversion
I just come back from USA where I went to convert my EASA IR into a FAA one.
As I already had a FAA PPL, I couldn't use the validation process acc. to 61.75, so the conversion acc. to TIP-L was the way.
I had both EASA and FAA Medicals and was current with a FAA BFR.
After receiving my validation letter from the FAA (it took +/- 45 days), I organized a trip to Orlando, where I found a school to fly the requested acclimatization hours, as I didn't have 50 hours IR PIC yet, nor of course 10 hours IR PIC in USA.
Some told me to do those acclimatization hours as PIC with a safety pilot, but I finally did it with an instructor from the school, and that was not too expensive (75$ per hour for the instructor) but worth. The flying was nothing new, but for sure the radio coms are challenging when you are french speaker like me. Those acclimatization hours are considered as recurrent instruction, so no need for a student Visa, a simple Esta was enough.
I passed the specific IEP written test with 100% result. Of course I studied well the FAA syllabi (Instrument flying and Instrument procedures handbooks - for free on FAA website), ASA instrument test prep book and sporty's instrument app to be sure being up-to-date.
Way more easy but more pragmatic approach than the EASA one. The IEP is like the IRA test, but logically more focusing on regulations and Charts.
Then I passed an IPC with my instructor and met with a DPE for reviewing my IACRA application (in theory you can also go in person to an FSDO but good luck to get an appointment before 3 months).
I found the DPE through the search tool from the FAA website and after writing to 6 or 7 of them close to Orlando. Very nice guy, prompt to answer and very helpful to me for fulfilling the IACRA 8710-1 Form.
Now I have both EASA and FAA PPL + IR and can fly IR in Europe with a N-registered airplane, as well as in USA.
Flying in Florida was a great experience, and I was lucky because a hurricane came just after.
TIP-L is apparently not so common yet, but all went fine.
As I already had a FAA PPL, I couldn't use the validation process acc. to 61.75, so the conversion acc. to TIP-L was the way.
I had both EASA and FAA Medicals and was current with a FAA BFR.
After receiving my validation letter from the FAA (it took +/- 45 days), I organized a trip to Orlando, where I found a school to fly the requested acclimatization hours, as I didn't have 50 hours IR PIC yet, nor of course 10 hours IR PIC in USA.
Some told me to do those acclimatization hours as PIC with a safety pilot, but I finally did it with an instructor from the school, and that was not too expensive (75$ per hour for the instructor) but worth. The flying was nothing new, but for sure the radio coms are challenging when you are french speaker like me. Those acclimatization hours are considered as recurrent instruction, so no need for a student Visa, a simple Esta was enough.
I passed the specific IEP written test with 100% result. Of course I studied well the FAA syllabi (Instrument flying and Instrument procedures handbooks - for free on FAA website), ASA instrument test prep book and sporty's instrument app to be sure being up-to-date.
Way more easy but more pragmatic approach than the EASA one. The IEP is like the IRA test, but logically more focusing on regulations and Charts.
Then I passed an IPC with my instructor and met with a DPE for reviewing my IACRA application (in theory you can also go in person to an FSDO but good luck to get an appointment before 3 months).
I found the DPE through the search tool from the FAA website and after writing to 6 or 7 of them close to Orlando. Very nice guy, prompt to answer and very helpful to me for fulfilling the IACRA 8710-1 Form.
Now I have both EASA and FAA PPL + IR and can fly IR in Europe with a N-registered airplane, as well as in USA.
Flying in Florida was a great experience, and I was lucky because a hurricane came just after.
TIP-L is apparently not so common yet, but all went fine.
