Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:35 pm
#1591686
Evening all,
I’m planning to have a month in the USA around July this year and it’d be great to do a couple of hours flying! I have a bog standard EASA PPL with SEP (land) and Class 2 medical (restricted to day VFR). I’ve seen a few sites which describe the process and it doesn’t seem too bad, eg:
http://getintoflying.com/uk-to-usa-licence-conversion/
I have a few little questions though, which some of you might be able to answer:
1. It looks like you have to make an appointment at an FSDO to get your FAA licence, and these FSDOs are in different regions which cover 5 or 6 states. Does that mean you can only fly/rent aircraft in the area covered by the FSDO you visit? (I’d be visiting the one in Las Vegas but might want to rent from an airport in Utah - the Vegas FSDO isn’t in the Utah area.)
2. Renters insurance - does the price of this vary according to how long you’ve had your licence/total hours? I’ve had mine less than a year and my total time is ~60 hours so I wouldn’t want to end up paying a stupid amount for it. Also are FBOs/flight schools picky on things like this when deciding whether they will rent to you or not?
Thanks, any stories from people who’ve done this in the past couple of years would be greatly appreciated
I’m planning to have a month in the USA around July this year and it’d be great to do a couple of hours flying! I have a bog standard EASA PPL with SEP (land) and Class 2 medical (restricted to day VFR). I’ve seen a few sites which describe the process and it doesn’t seem too bad, eg:
http://getintoflying.com/uk-to-usa-licence-conversion/
I have a few little questions though, which some of you might be able to answer:
1. It looks like you have to make an appointment at an FSDO to get your FAA licence, and these FSDOs are in different regions which cover 5 or 6 states. Does that mean you can only fly/rent aircraft in the area covered by the FSDO you visit? (I’d be visiting the one in Las Vegas but might want to rent from an airport in Utah - the Vegas FSDO isn’t in the Utah area.)
2. Renters insurance - does the price of this vary according to how long you’ve had your licence/total hours? I’ve had mine less than a year and my total time is ~60 hours so I wouldn’t want to end up paying a stupid amount for it. Also are FBOs/flight schools picky on things like this when deciding whether they will rent to you or not?
Thanks, any stories from people who’ve done this in the past couple of years would be greatly appreciated