pilotforlife33
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How hard is it to transfer your FAA commercial to a Chinese or Philippines commercial license?
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pilotforlife33
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Perfect. I know the FAA carries a decent amount of weight for flying around the world. Thank you.
z987k
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Do you mean living and working in China/Phillipenes for a carrier flagged in the respective country, flying an N registered ship in those countries or operating as a crew-member for a US airline in a N registered ship in and out of those countries?
Stone Cold
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Are you sure about that? I've never tried but have several buddies over in China in various places flying business jets and I think their CAA makes you go through either a conversion or a validation, and they have a very thorough medical.
I had a buddy get denied a medical due to getting Lasik which apparently isn't allowed or they used that as an excuse to not hire him. He's a good dude, so not sure why it happened .
Anyways, I don't know first hand but I've heard it takes a while and can be a very tedious process in China anyways.
typhoonpilot
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At a minimum it requires passing a written test; a checkride; and their medical for China. Not sure about the PI, but I believe it is pretty straight forward there.
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pilotforlife33
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thanks for all of your information.