TSA Ease Vetting for International Trainees

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TSA is altering its rules to make it easier for foreign pilots to take recurrent training in the United States.

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If the applicant is unable to speak, read, write English then he/she would not be eligible for a FAA Certificate in the first instance.

Not all foreign applicants are interested in obtaining FAA certificates; they may only be requesting to use the simulator facilities. Could be pilots from Brasil, China or Turkey who fly domestic and don't require Level-4 English... Many pilots of foreign air carriers with foreign licenses contract with simulator operators in the USA.