Overseas JAA Instructors

As announced in the April 2000 edition of FLYER magazine, we are launching a page on the Airportal which will contain details of UK JAR Flight Instructors overseas.

Why might you need to use this list? [jump straight to the list]

Quite simply, if you're a private pilot resident abroad, but flying single engine piston aircraft (or touring motor gliders) on the basis of a UK licence, you'll need to revalidate your SEP or TMG rating every two years. This could be done by a proficiency check with a JAR examiner in the final three months before expiry, but most pilots prefer to use the 'personal experience' route.

Part of the requirement for revalidation by personal flying experience is a flight of at least an hour with an instructor in the final year of the rating. The trouble is that the CAA are insisting that this is interpreted as being an instructor from a JAA-aligned state. Many of the countries in which ex-pats find themselves aren't JAA-aligned. Even some European countries are surprisingly non-aligned (Germany, for instance, at the time of writing).

If you are in a JAA-aligned state, you can use a local instructor. Make sure the flight lasts at least an hour, log it as training, and get the instructor to countersign it with his or her reference number.

If you are in a non-aligned State, finding an instructor from a JAA-aligned state such as the UK might be difficult. Which is where this page comes in.

We'll be maintaining a list of JAA instructors who either live or regularly visit overseas so that you'll be able to consult this list and contact the most convenient instructor when you need one. We will also flag where the instructor is also an examiner, in case you would rather take the examiner proficiency check to revalidate. (This is your only option if you let your 2 year rating expire without meeting all the revalidation requirements.)

All the requirements (including the instructor flight) for revalidation by experience fall in the final year of the 2 year rating, and can be done in any order. When you have completed all your revalidation requirements, either the CAA or an examiner can sign off your SEP or TMG rating for another 2 years. Therefore, if the instructor you used for your flight is not ALSO an examiner authorised to sign off ratings (most are not), you will have to complete the paperwork by mail with the CAA.

If the instructor you used happens to be an authorised examiner too, he or she will be able to sign off your paperwork locally. All the UK instructors abroad, or organisations with UK instructors, that we know of are on this page. If they don't appear here, we simply don't know about them.

So if you're in Outer Monbuctoo and nobody's listed for that country here, don't contact us - but if you find an instructor, get him or her to contact us! Please also make sure of the latest regulations for such revalidation flights so that you can be secure in the knowledge that your licence is truly valid! On the other hand, if you're a UK instructor, please do contact us by filling out the form here, and we'll add your name to this list.

Blue skies and happy revalidations!

North America

USA
Anglo-American Aviation International Contact: Marc Joyce. Permanent residence. Both instructor and examiner. Located at Gillespie Field, San Diego, California. JAA and FAA revalidations available

Paul Thompson (instructor and examiner, single & multi) - paul@check-flight.com. Tel: 866 673 5876 (toll free from US), fax 772 562 8786. Florida based JAA flight examiner. Revalidation or renewal of single or multi-engine piston class ratings and single pilot instrument rating. JAA PPL or CPL (single or multi-engine) flight examiner. UK CAA R/T Examiner

UK Flight Training - fly@ukft.com (in the UK jimashore@freenet.uk.com) Tel/fax USA: 562 4046696, UK: 01329 832139. Permanent residence. Single and multi instructor/examiner. Owner and operator UK Flight Training since 1990

George McNeil - Instructor. Ongoing residence, based Phoenix, Arizona. Also FAA rotorcraft (H) instructor. See www.universalheli.com

Danielle Clarke - Flywatchukltd@earthlink.net www.flywatch-ltd.comInstructor and examiner. Permanent residence. Based Naples, Florida. Contact: mobile USA 239 269 7882, fax 239 775 5109

Europe

Spain
Christopher Good Contact: +44 2920 599506. Instructor/examiner SEP. Although I live and work as an instructor/examiner in Wales, I regularly travel to the Alicante area in Spain. I would be happy to carry out renewal/revalidations for JAA licence holders. Also R/T examiner

Spain/various
John Marriott Contact: +44 7889 967700; johnmarriott@compuserve.com; + 34 95 288 7178. Instructor. I am British Airways flight crew visiting many places served by the 747-400 and happy to do the hours flying with anybody needing a JAA instructor. I also live near Malaga, Spain and am happy to do likewise for anybody in south Spain

Germany
Anthony Johnston Contact: +49 170 2640 158; anthony.johnston@dregis.com. Instructor/examiner. I live and work in Frankfurt. I also regularly travel to Hamburg and I am happy to carry out renewal/revalidations for JAA licence holders. I can offer flight training for initial PPL, IMC and night ratings at a registered facility at Egelsbach just south of Frankfurt and located in the Frankfurt TMA.

Finland
Dougal Russell Contact: +358503485101; dougalrussell@hotmail.com. Instructor. Permanent resident. British instructor but live and work in Helsinki, Finland. In addition to general training flights (SEP) I'm also available for JAR PPL & night training and can arrange aircraft hire, rental check outs etc for visiting pilots. Contact me for more details.

Asia

Singapore, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Australia
Mike Derrett Contact: UK address - Stane Cottage, Watchouse Road, Stebbing, Nr Dunmow, Essex CM6 3SP. mderrett@compuserve.com. Mobile + 44 7 860440336, tel UK + 44 1371 856366. Instructor and examiner. Regular traveller to Gulf states and Asia/Australia

Africa

South Africa
Irv Lee For one week only! Contact: hpatregister@hotmail.com. 20 March - 26 March 2002, mainly in Port Elizabeth with some time in Bloemfontain. Offering JAR SEP instructor flights and JAR SEP revalidation examiner sign offs. Your chance to fly with FLYER's famous contributor!