glider pilot to pvt pilot

[Jet_Dreamer]

a little help please. i have a student who is a italian glider rated pilot who is here in the states preparing for his pvt pilot check ride. can he use is italian glider time to fulfill his 40 hour min requirement? thanks.

 

[tarp]

You're going to have to talk to FSDO.

The first thing I would have him do is get a US glider PPL based on his foreign certificate. (Pt. 61.75) From there you can now use Pt.61.63 to get the additonal category rating - unfortunately glider is the one rating that still requires the written test.

If you did that, then you can safely cut down the training to all those things in 61.109 that specifically state "single-engine airplane".

As to a straight application of foreign instruction in a different category, it's the FAA interpretation of 61.41. You would have to talk to FSDO and see what they will accept.

 

[ShawnC]

a little help please. i have a student who is a italian glider rated pilot who is here in the states preparing for his pvt pilot check ride. can he use is italian glider time to fulfill his 40 hour min requirement? thanks.

No, I tried (glider time is much cheaper than airplane time). Though it does help someone get their certificate faster because they already know the basics quite well.

Unfortunately the FAA in it's infinite wisdom made an easy way to convert from airplane to glider, but not the other way around.

Another interesting note (that I learned from visiting glider pilots at the glider port), if the country they are coming from has additional certificate restrictions that we don't have in the US (such as a night check ride, or having a medical), their US issued certificate will have the same restrictions.