On Mar 28, 1:04*pm, wrote:
On Mar 28, 10:46 am, "Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote:

Seems the overwhelming numbers here are USA. And, it feeds into the
attitude that the USA is the only one that counts.
I'm curious as to how many visitors here have a non USA pilot
certificate and where from?
Further, how many pilots here have flown in countries other than the
USA?

And to start topic drift already, I'd like to follow up with:

If an American citizen has a USA commercial, is there any easy way to
collect certificates from other countries? I can see the advantage of
collecting a few more that would be beyond the reach of TSA and FAA
lunatics.

You can get certificates that are reciprocal based on your US
certificate but the norm is for you to take a local flight physical,
take a written on local air law/regs (and usually in the local
language....) and sometimes take a flight check. Most of the time, it
can be based on a physical, written, and based on your flight log with
appropriate restrictions. For diplomatic reasons, I elected to get a
Canada Commercial pilot cert for those countries that are not friendly
to the USA. So far, I've been licensed in at least 15 countries and my
original is with the USA - ATP ASMELS-RIFR,CFII/RAM
The Canada commercial was the most laborious and took a couple weeks
out of my life while I was in Vancouver getting certified. The other
were fairly quick, a few days at most in the different countries. I
was required to get licensed to fly their locally registered aircraft
for my employment. Most of it was for agricultural ops (crop dusting)
with either airplanes or helicopters. Only a few of the countries did
I have to know the local language other than English.