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Originally Posted by VFT01 ...
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If you hold 500 hrs multi crew experience on a FAR 25 /23 type, hold a type rating on that type, and will be doing your ATPL skills test on that type you are exempt from the Type rating course and doing any type of training for the ground examinations, you can simply just enter and sit them without any help, then go and do the skills test. |
That is the most common way to 'convert' FAA to JAA, except that the 500h have to be on FAR/JAR 25 aircraft, not 23. And you don't have to take all 15 exams, you just need to do a "differences training", what is more or less a one or two day course followed by three or four subjects(one of them being performance). And of course you have to hold a full type rating without restrictions that can be entered into your license.
Just go to your Licensing Authority and talk to them in person. Don't rely only on the written rules. They usually decide conversions on a case-by-case situation, so for some persons it might be easier than for others...
But always consider that the JAA is an Organization with an expiry date and will probably not exist after 2007 or 2008, when the EASA overtakes the whole Flight Crew training and licensing process in Europe, by regulating it in the EU by law. The JAR's still need to be integrated into every country's own law system and are only considered as recommendations. So there are still differences in all JAA-member countries. The EASA stuff will be mandatory for all member countries of the EU...