Upgrading from NPPL to PPL

[spenol]

If one has a NPPL flying licence in the UK, how can one upgrade to PPL - do you just have to do the extra 13 hours training, or do you have to re-do exams and such like?

Many thanks for any help.

Oliver Spencer.

Sorry if this message is in the wrong area of the site.

[Evo]

The NPPL FAQ at http://www.nppl.uk.com/faq.asp says:


Q Can I upgrade to a JAR-FCL PPL?
A Yes. 30 hours can be carried over as a credit towards a JAR-FCL PPL, as long as all flying training has been completed by a JAR qualified instructor and all JAR PPL exams have been passed. 15 hours of training will need to be completed, of which 5 can be done on a simulator.


And dont worry, this is the right bit of PPRuNe :)

Hope this helps

[Fly Stimulator]

spenol,

As Evo’s quote points out you don’t need to re-do the exams since the NPPL uses the JAR exams in the first place. The concession allowing you to do only 15 more hours assumes that you currently have an NPPL with SEP rating and that all your training was carried out by a JAR-qualified instructor at a CAA-approved facility.

If your NPPL SEP was based on cross-credited microlight hours or if you only have a microlight NPPL you’ll have to do at least 35 hours more training, unless by unusual good fortune your microlight training happened to have been done by a JAR-qualified instructor at a CAA-approved facility.

Since you’re going to have to pay for several hours flying around with an instructor why not use the time to do your night qualification while you’re at it? You can apply for that at the same time as your initial application for the PPL. Might as well get as much as you can out of the time.

Apart from the hours, you’ll need to do the qualifying cross country flight and the normal JAR PPL skills test which is very similar to what you’ll have done for the NPPL, but includes more radio navigation and instrument work; specifically the 180-turn in (probably simulated) IMC.

You will of course need to get at least a Class II medical as well.