So after you make the Flight Review and get an FAA license based on the EASA license, how long is the former one valid? How often do you need to repeat the Flight Review?
BFR = Biennial Flight Review.
You need to get the license first (the FSDO will issue a temporary license and you will get the definitive, plastic one by mail to your home address within a relatively short time), and then do the Flight Review. The Flight Review is biennial (24 months).
The FAA license validity is based on your European license (and medical) validity. The Biennial Flight Review – every two years.
Shorrick_Mk2 wrote:
The FAA license validity is based on your European license (and medical) validity. The Biennial Flight Review – every two years.
The EASA license has no validity date, so it’s valid forever as long as you have a class rating. Medical I is valid for 1 year max. SEP is valid 2 years, MEP 1 year, IR also 1 year. And then the BFR two years. Makes it pretty complicated, especially as each of these has a different expiration date.
BFR you only need to care about if and when you go to the US. Most renters will require a rental checkout anyway. The rest… well… first world problem :).
Shorrick_Mk2 wrote:
BFR you only need to care about if and when you go to the US.
Or if you fly a N-reg in Europe… or outside the US, like many of us do.
