JAA ATPL integrated course question

[Fraggel]

If you pass your ATPL exams (ground school) in one country, is it allowed to start your flight training in another country???

Over here they make a great deal about it. They claim you have to do your flight training with the same school at which you started your ground training.

But why did they start the JAA ATPL course in the first place then??? To create a free transaction between pilot training schools. Or am I mistaken here???

I would like to know,

Fraggel

[Noggin]

You appear to be both confused and mistaken.
An ATPL Integrated Course is a continuous course of instruction at a single FTO approved for that purpose. OATS for example subcontracts some of the training to overseas providers, but the course is still run by a single FTO in one country.

If you do the groundschool in one place and the flying in another it is no longer an Integrated course. It would now be Modular.

[Capt Wannabe]

JAR-FCL states something along the lines that once training has been commenced under one authority, it has to be completed under the same authority. However, there is a bit of confusion over this as it seems it is unpto the individual authorities but as far as I'm aware it is still a grey area.

------------------
CW
The original not the imposter!