Converting a Foreign IR - CAA update
 

Hot of the press from the CAA:

With IMMEDIATE effect holders of an ICAO licence (Private or Professional) that includes an IR wishing to convert that licence and/or IR to a UK/JAR-FCL licence with IR will have to complete a full approved IR course and then pass the skill test.

Applicants who have already commenced a course of training (that includes IR training) will be permitted to continue training under the old rules (hours decided at the discretion of the training probiver) will be permitted to continue on that basis providing the school where s/he is training sends a letter to the CAA explaining so.

So if you're planning on going elsewhere to get a non-JAA IR and then convert to a JAA IR, it's time to rethink your plan.

More information is meant to be available on the CAA website but there's nothing up there at the moment.

Thanks for that TooHotToFly.

That's my South Africa plans done in, then.

Why does the CAA feel the need to behave in such a bl**dy protectionist manner? Under the old rules everyone had to sit the same skills test!

To add to that, get your UK school IR bookings in as fast as you can, 'cos there's sure to be a backlog once this gets out.

[This message has been edited by foghorn (edited 02 February 2001).]

Very interesting.! What is your source THTF.? We`ll have to get Watford on this one.

Am I not to be trusted?

I would trust ToHotToFly, as he is correct. I guess that he has the same fax from the CAA like I have.

Tohottofly...which training establishment are you from? (If you are from one) Email me

Homer

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The information is available on the FCL website, in the Policy Update of 30/01/2001.

IR(A) or (H)
An applicant holding a PPL or CPL who meets the experience requirements
of JAR-FCL 1.190/2.190 shall undergo a full approved training course for
issue of the instrument rating as required by JAR-FCL Subpart E,
irrespective of whether the ICAO licence held included an IR granted by
the state of licence issue.

Why do the CAA continue to change the rules
all the time ?

Do they not realise all this affects peoples lives

This whole JAA thing is a dog breakfast

Does this new rule affect the old CAA IR? I am approaching the 700hr mark. Can I still do the non-approved IR for CAA? Thanks for any reply.

By the way, I am on the old CAA system.

This has scuppered my plans of doing FAA CPL/IR with a view to returning here to reduce costs!
I am also getting fed up with all these changes, having supposedly planned out my training for the next year. Now, like others I have to re-think and get more money together!!!
However, there is another way of looking at this. It may disuade foreign pilots from jumping into our system due to the extra costs involved??? Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-foreign, but it will disuade some of them and it will increase revenue for schools over here - a tactic already employed by some other countries within the JAA not too far away from our shores??? Maybe this ia a protectionists reaction to the way that other countries stop foreign pilots entering their system?
Can anyone see a hole in my thought pattern?
I'm glad this was posted, coz I was just about to leap, and fall flat on my face. Thanks to the originator!!!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

It's stuff like that that REALLY makes my blood boil.

Would the last person to leave the country please turn off the lights!

WX Man,

Did I upset you, was it the point I raised or what the CAA have changed?

Do you think they'll do the same in the end if you hold, for example, a FAA CPL, and have to complete a fully approved course?

This country is so represive. I wish I had duel nationality so i could leave this dump. I hate being ripped of by over paid, under worked wan*ers.

To the CAA a big 'V' from me !

Who does the CAA actually represent?
Their remit is flight safety and all that that involves.
With rule changes of this nature that effect a number of 'wannabes',with no prior notice, that the UK CAA is quite definitely controlled by one or two very powerful lobby groups. With funding coming from our pockets they are not subject to the normal scrutiny that other government agencies are under to get funds , and can therefore operate completely outside the normal boundaries.
What are the chances of ever bringing the CAA to heel? A CAA that is actually accountable.
Has anyone ever tried a 'class action'suit against them or the government, who are ultimately responsible?
Just an idea.....
:mad:mad:mad

My guess is that the CAA and the FAA were in a meeting and it went something like this:

I'll give you an IR for an IMC rating.

Only if you'll give us a non JAA CPL for a JAA CPL.

No, we'll only give you a 10 hour credit.

In that case you don't get any recognition for a non JAA IR.

Or something along those lines.

No point in having a go at the CAA, once again this was the work of the JAA, the JAR-FCL committee to be exact. The CAA were, as always, in a minority of one in trying to prevent this totally unnecessary protectionist edict.

This whole thing seems silly. Just doing the ground school, exams and flight tests to standards should be more than enough. The ironic thing is guys like myself or anyone else out there with a fair amount of real IFR time could be training with a guy with far less real experience. Candidate has 1000 hours of IFR time, instructor has 200. Who is teaching who? I mean learning the regulations, learning airspace requirements, learning procedures can be done outside an A/C or simulator. Experience is everything in this world. Just pass the damn ride. IFR is IFR, plain and simple. Anyone care to comment, give her a rip. Does anyone know if they will wave certain things with given experience on a case by case bases?? Cheers mates. In my mind it is a money grab by JAA schools with the assistance of the powers at be.

Have to agree with RC. There's not a great deal the CAA can do about. I wonder how many of you were pro-European until it screwed up your flying.

[This message has been edited by 'I' in the sky (edited 05 February 2001).]

Whilst I wasn't having a go at the CAA (perhaps I should have said JAA) I fail to see why there is so much emphasis placed on the number of hours training as opposed to the test. If you are good enough to pass the test, why should it matter how many hours it took you to get there. The CAA said that the reason for the increase in the IR was to stop people sitting a test when they weren't ready simply because they felt under pressure. I think it is a worse crime to make people train for 50 hours when they only need 20. The IR test is stringent enough that you won't pass unless you really are good enough so why keep making everyone do loads of hours.