Maintaining hours

[Pearcy]

Dear All,

I have been searching everywhere to find some facts and figures and cannot see anything relevant,

can anyone tell me the miniumum flying hours required monthly or yearly to keep a CPL valid, i.e. if you go away for 5 months will you have to take the whole training agin or just have a preliminary flight test....??

any help..

cheers
Pearcy

[High Wing Drifter]

As far as I am aware the CPL does not have an hours requirement except for issue. Your Class Rating(s) have currency requirements. For example SEP is revalidated biennially and MEP annually.

http://www.jaa.nl/publications/section1.html

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?categoryid=33&pagetype=65&applicationid=11&mode=detail&id=1591

[ATP_Al]

Licences and ratings are revalidated in different ways.

A RATING is revalidated by taking a flight test, or in the case of the SEP rating, by experience. The revalidation requirements for a rating are the same, whether it's attached to a PPL, CPL or ATPL.

LICENCE revalidation is purely an adminstrative process. All JAR licences are valid for five years. When your five years is up, you fill in a form and send the CAA a cheque (for a change!) and they send you a new licence. No flight test or minimum hours are required, although you do need to have a current medical and at least one current aircraft rating in your licence when you apply.

So nothing fundamental changes when you get a CPL - you just have revalidate any type or class ratings you have, renew your medical and apply for a new licence every five years.

Hope that helps!

Al