The FAA will not recognize any foreign type rating on a stand alone basis. In my case, I have a B767 type rating on my Japanese ATPL and the only way to get that on my FAA certificate is to sit through an approved training course and take another checkride. Same as if I had never sat in the airplane.
Now you can get a SIC type rating put on there if you can produce your training documents, but that's not really worth anything anyway so why even bother.
I wouldn't say that you have nothing to show for it. You will have your foreign certificate with the type rating on it. I won't lose My Japanese ATPL with type rating just because I leave Japan. Same as I haven't lost my FAA certificates because I no longer fly in the US.
Originally Posted by
atpcliff
Hi!
Nothing to do with the carrier. It is the home-country's CAA (like FAA). You will get a license conversion, and have their home country CAA license. The type rating will be on that license. Usually, the conversion is not too painful. Sometimes, like with the Kenya CAA, it is a MESS!
When you get back to the states it is typically easy to get the type rating converted to your FAA license. If you have a lot of problems at a FSDO/with an FAA rep, go to another rep or another FSDO. Some places are used to converting, some aren't.
ALSO, many type ratings are different from US-overseas.
For example, a DC-9 type FAA is -9/MD-80/90/B-717. Most CAAs count them as 4 different type ratings. Another is the ATR. FAA is ATR. Vietnam CAA have ATR 42 and 72 as two seperate type ratings. Same goes for some of the CAAs and some of the CRJ/ERJ type ratings.
cliff