hey all,

I would like to get my foreign type ratings put onto my FAA ATP.

I have received conflicting information about this process.

Do the FAA recognize foreign types or is a full type course required despite several thousand hours on type?

regards

If you want the real scoop, you are best to contact one of many TRTOs in the US... Pan Am International Flight Training, Boeing, CAE, to name a few. They will advise you accordingly and answer any and all questions relating to TSA and Visas, as may be required, depending on where you reside. CAE has many locations globally with FAA Desingated examiners as well.

Good luck.

As captjns said, all those places have courses available for folks that have experience on type, it is basically a self study course followed by 3 or 4 sim rides and then the check ride with the FAA, depends on what type rating but it will run you about 14K. The most important question here is, Why? Unless it is a prerequisite for a job offer, I think it will be a waist of money! If you are going to invest on a type rating, you might as well get one you don't already have.

Thanks for the info guys.

I checked out Pan Am and sent a request for info but they are unable to conduct A330 type ratings until next year? Doesn't say why.

I will get the skinny from these outfits.

I want to get involved in ferry flying and want to be as marketable as possible.

Or you can can go to the FSIMS guidance for the FAA and try to decode it.

FSIMS Document Viewer

What it says is if you don't currently hold a FAA certificate they will issue you a private with your type ratings limited to VFR ONLY under 61.75. If you then get a normal commercial or ATP and can show the training for your foreign type was conducted by the holder of a FAA CFI they'll move your type ratings over to your normal certificate. But since you say you have an ATP you can't go back and get a 61.75. So you're stuck doing the normal GS, sims and checkride. The only question is how much GS and how many sims. That's all controlled by the 142 school's training program and what courses they have approved by the FAA.

You can get your instrument on the FAA private and that VFR restriction taken away by passing a US instrument knowledge test. That's also in the regs.

Yes but the OP already holds a regular ATP so they can't go back and get a 61.75 private and then get US TEST PASSED.

Ouch, crappy deal.

I just spoke to some guys from Cathay who have managed to get their foreign types stamped across to their FAA ATP by asking around various FISDO's until someone agreed to do it.

This is getting confusing!

Then I'd say contact whichever FSDO the Cathay pilots used and see what they want.