Ah ok I see mad jock! cheers.
pudoc, your pal should have just said something along the lines of: "I wanted to enhance my flying skills and see a bit of the world and see how things are done in other places - I find it exciting to travel to other places and learn new things" etc...etc...! haha 'Im sure thats the stuff they like to hear! lol

Stupid Q: ICAO means International Civil Avition Organisation... doesn't it? And that covers the whole world doesnt it? That's what international means, lots of nations. Well whats all this talk about ICAO PPL's and the like?! I don't understand! :ugh:

Not quite nearly everyone has signed up to it though, you will find out all about it and its sodding annexs and when and where they had there conferences during your ground school.

An ICAO ppl is one from a country which has signed up to it and has its minimum standard the same or better than the ICAO minimum.

You can have compliant and none compliant in the same country. eg the UK JAR PPL is compliant but the NPPL isn't. And FAA PPL is but sports license thing they have isn't.

I see!!! Thank you for explaining that - has bugged me for a while. My lack of knowledge of all these expressions and acronyms always bites me in the ass in these dicussions, but I'm getting there ;)

cheers

Do a search for a book called LASORS by the CAA then print out the bits to do with the different licence requirements.

It has all the abbrevations and terms in a glossary.

Will do, thanks :ok:

Pretty much.

I feel it should all be done in the UK, but still there's nothing wrong with the US at all and I understand that's the only way some people can achieve their goals in life. And I've just noticed how far off topic we are, my bad.

Nah no bad, go with the flow threads develope down different directions.

You won't go wrong doing all your training in the UK and if you can afford the time to deal with the UK climate during training and hour building you will be a better pilot for it for working in UK airspace.