Overseas training question
09-05-2015, 08:17 PM
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Except for Transport Canada licenses there is no direct conversion of foreign license to FAA certificates. While the total time and solo time would count any training for a FAA certificate has to given by an "authorized instructor" which in most cases means the holder of a FAA CFI certificate. If your overseas training isn't given by a FAA CFI and recorded as such it won't count.
09-06-2015, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Twin Wasp
If your overseas training isn't given by a FAA CFI and recorded as such it won't count.
Sure it counts.
61.41: (a) A person may credit flight training toward the requirements of a pilot certificate or rating issued under this part, if that person received the training from:
(2) A flight instructor who is authorized to give such training by the licensing authority of a foreign contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, and the flight training is given outside the United States.
I think the real question here is... where is this foreign country that has much cheaper flight training than the US?
09-06-2015, 08:35 PM
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I have yet to see any country that has cheaper flight training than in the U.S. There might be a country out there but as a holder of both FAA and foreign flying licenses/certificates, I have not yet met anyone who said it was cheaper abroad.
09-07-2015, 06:43 AM
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61.41 (b) A flight instructor described in paragraph (a) is only authorized to give endorsements to show training given.
"Won't count" may have been a bit much but a foreign instructor can't sign a student off for privileges or a checkride. So they'd have to demo all the tasks in the PTS to a FAA CFI to get signed for the ride. That would extend the training and raise the cost.
"Won't count" may have been a bit much but a foreign instructor can't sign a student off for privileges or a checkride. So they'd have to demo all the tasks in the PTS to a FAA CFI to get signed for the ride. That would extend the training and raise the cost.
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