AUS CPLH to USA & CANADIAN CPLH

[Red Eagle]

Hi all you heli lovers,

I am about to go over and do my USA and Canadian CPLH. I have most things sorted but just un sure if there is any advantages of doing the FAA first or the Canadian?

Also does anyone knows the min training I have to do? From the flight schools that I have been talking to it is:

Canada- 10 hours instrument with 5 hours of that being ok to do in the sim.

FAA- 5 hours night and 5 hours instrument.

With the FAA I did read somewhere that it was only 2 hours night with a NAV over 50nm? and that the instrument time can be done in the sim? I am hoping some one can shine some light on those 2 things of me.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[jimiemick]

I believe for CPLH in the USA you also need more than the 105/115hrs that we do here in Australia.

But you may be well past that. Just something I have heard. I believe it is 150hrs for CPLH under FAA

What companies have you been talking to?
I spoke with Hillsborough in Portland, they where pretty helpful.

[Little Bird]

Read the FAA CFRs, https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&r=PART&n=14y2.0.1.1.2 for a detailed review of what you need.

[Red Eagle]

Thanks heaps little bird. That clears up the FAA question.

[Dylan_haycraft]

hey

how did you go with this?

just going through the process of getting finger prints in Aus to head over to jerry Trimble mid year.

am I able to transfer my licence straight away to Canadian? I see they need a licence verification the could take like 90 days?

any info on this would be awesome

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[av8r]

You will not be able to convert your FAA CPL-H immediately to a TCCA CPL-H as you need your physical FAA licence in-hand to present to Transport Canada when you go to sit the conversion exam, and they will not accept your provisional licence as it does not have the correct licence number.

It will take a few weeks for the FAA CPL to be issued; it took me six weeks but may take longer now that President Dorito is slashing FAA staffing. Bring a good book.

[Ogaff47]

It will take a few weeks for the FAA CPL to be issued; it took me six weeks but may take longer now that President Dorito is slashing FAA staffing. Bring a good book.

Right now it's taking around a month for them to process permanent airman certificates from temporary certificates.
You can check on current processing times here: https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certification

You can plan, roughly, on a month processing plus however long it takes the mail to get from Oklahoma to the address you have in your IACRA application/profile. Recently took a month for FAA to process + five weeks for the mail to get to my home in West Aus.


I just recently finished up some training at Jerry Trimble, feel free to shoot me a message if you'd like with any question.

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