Foreign License?

Question

The company that I fly for just bought a US Registered Learjet 31A, that captain and I have schedueld the training at flight safety for mid march. The airplane is going to be based in Mexico but we are going to keep the US registration for a while, I have a Commercial FAA license I learned to fly in the US. But the captain has a commercial FAA license that is based on his mexican DGAC license, but his commercial faa license has a restriction that he can not cary passengers or property for compensation or for hire. And I dont know why it has this restriction it is a commercial license. How could the capitan remove this restriction from his license, getting a FAA Instrument Rating?? please help thanks!

Answer 1

Well if you only have a VFR AMEL then you are limited to carrying passengers within 50 miles of the airport. It's all in FAR 61.

I think the best thing to do would be to contact your local FSDO.

I would say just make sure that all questions posed to the FAA are hypothetical.