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FAA stopping FAA checkrides, and other DPE services, outside the US, except for US citizens

I have just been to http://www.schaircraft.com/

and it contains

and clicking on that takes you to http://www.dpetest.com/
which shows

So this appears to be the end of Captain Thomas Hughston DPE, after many colourful years, since around 2005. He still appears to do flight training.

No more 61.75 piggyback licenses outside the UK, too.

Significantly, despite this being almost a year old, it has not really hit the GA social media (apart from a recent claim on FB that you can do it) which shows how few people are now going to the N-reg route. EASA and the national CAAs must be delighted

The end of an era which IME spanned 20 years – papers moving TB20 to N-reg. A route on which I met more colourful characters than I could talk about over a day’s beer

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

I held an original FAA licence but when I looked into upgrading the licence in the UK, it was actually cheaper to go Stateside and have it done in a few days at one of the integrated schools, albeit as a modular course.

Oxford (EGTK), United Kingdom

For sure it would have been cheaper.

I did the FAA PPL here in 2004, for $1000, and the FAA CPL here in 2008 with almost the last DPE allowed to come over to the UK (a guy from Wichita) before they were stopped, reportedly by telling the Home Office a bogus story about them needing a working visa (discussed previously).

When I said “colourful” I meant it

This refers.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom
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