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Upper age limit to be UK flying instructor?

Old 19th Aug 2014, 05:52
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Upper age limit to be UK flying instructor?

I am in my late 40s. Lapsed PPL, IMC, Night, RT, AOPA Ground Instructor Cert. Approx 300TT with 210+ PIC. Last flight PIC approx 12 yrs ago. Thinking about revalidating, and adding A/FI rating. CPL+ required? Most importantly, how many yrs would I be allowed to fly professionally for before I am required to stop by CAA/JAR/EASA, or whoever the heck decides these things right now? Will I be
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Old 19th Aug 2014, 09:56
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I know of one full time working instructor in his late 70s in the UK, and a part time instructor in his 90s in the USA.

Basically how long can you hold a medical, and how long do you actually want to do it?

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One or two give up voluntarily at around 80. The determining factor is usually the medical.
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.... and insurance
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Perhaps you should email the CAA FCL and ask them what they would require from you to issue a new licence which I presume would have to be an EASA one.
You may be disappointed with what they require which may well be almost as much as it took to get the rating in the first place and the training to be done at an FTO not at your local flight school or club. As for age, well yesterday I was chatting to a grand old man of aviation who is 95. He'd done an IR renewal for me in a Seneca in 1997, when he would have been 78? He went flying well into his 80s. But then again, he is a master class in his own right.
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Perhaps you should email the CAA FCL and ask them what they would require from you to issue a new licence which I presume would have to be an EASA one.
Absolutely the wrong approach to take. Your first action should be to download CAP 804 and study the requirements to renew your licence and ratings. Only if you have some obscure, non-standard query should you bother the CAA when you can easily find out the answers yourself.

The prerequisites for instructing at either LAPL or PPL level are stated in CAP 804 and it will be up to you to decide at which level you may wish to instruct.

However, age alone is not an issue.

A lot has changed in the past 12 years, although the requirements to renew a licence are actually simpler than they were in pre-JAA days. For example, you wouldn't need to pass any theoretical knowledge exams again, except perhaps those applicable to the FRTOL.
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except perhaps those applicable to the FRTOL.
Now there lies a mystery. CAP 804 and the SRG1106 are not coherent!
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I stand completely corrected.

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Lapsed PPL, IMC, Night, RT, AOPA Ground Instructor Cert.
Pass a SEP class rating Skill test and a IMC rating skill test following whatever training is needed to meet the standard. All quite simple really.
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My dad was examing when he was 81 years old till he lost his medical.
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Thank you.

Hi folks, many thanks for your replies. Greatly appreciated.

As per advice, I am ploughing through CAP 804. A combination of CAPs 53, 54, various White AICs, JAA regs, LASORs, JAR regs and EASA regs, all rolled into one, as I see it! Phee-yoo! (I gained the quals mentioned in the thread opener between 1984 and 1988).

The spark for the thread opener was finding that EASA are more lenient/has common sense, than UK CAA, about a medication I take, so am investigating this right now (as well as CAP 804!), and may be back in the land of being a med cert holder, for kick off.

Cheers
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