Validty of FAA licence in UK/European airspace
 

For those os you intending to fly out to US and undertake some training then the following link makes for interesting reading!

http://www.ukft.com/sims%20letter.html

Basically they are copies of letters/fax the owner of the school has sent to the CAA and French and German agencies. The responses allow you to exercise the right of your FAA licences whilst flying a G Reg aircraft i.e. multi rating.

Be aware that the CAA has changed the advice on its site since Ajay took his screen shot. It now no longer suggests that the foreign IR gives the same privileges as an IMC rating.

Nevertheless, the results of Ajay's enquiries are interesting with regards to flying a G-reg in France and Germany -- it appears that an FAA (or other ICAO) licence can be used to the same extent as if as if the pilot were flying over the UK.

An interesting development!

I think the IR=IMC thing requires you to apply to the CAA for something that says formally that you can use the FAA IR as a CAA IMC rating.

If you have a CAA/JAA PPL (no IMC) and an FAA PPL/IR, the CAA will - I understand - issue you an IMC rating without further ado.

Unless it changed recently...

Yep I knew about the IR=IMC as I did that route myself.

What interests me is the fact that if you held, say an FAA Multi you could fly a G Reg multi in the UK, or a number of other airspaces according to the letters.

The IR rights on a G can only be exercised outside of controlled airspace.