Part FCL / Private Pilot (Sailplane)
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Part FCL / Private Pilot (Sailplane)
Hello guys.
I'm about to start my sailplane pilot training in Portugal.
Although I hold an EASA CPL and FI license I have a hard time understanding and "linking" PART-FCL in order to understand the requirements, syllabus, and if there's any validation of ground and flight training for being holder of an EASA CPL(A) license.
I already have a hard time understanding what the PART, AMC and decisions mean and how they affect each other. Then the training requirements lay in different places around the regulations and I'm not able to link them together.
If you know of any website or any prologue that could help me understand better how this works I'd be grateful.
Thank you, and have a nice weekend.
(PS: Some of you may think the gliding club where I will start my training should know this, but the problem is they seem to be more or less in the same boat. Portugal has just implemented EASA rules for gliders this very year, so they seem to be finding their way through as well.)
I'm about to start my sailplane pilot training in Portugal.
Although I hold an EASA CPL and FI license I have a hard time understanding and "linking" PART-FCL in order to understand the requirements, syllabus, and if there's any validation of ground and flight training for being holder of an EASA CPL(A) license.
I already have a hard time understanding what the PART, AMC and decisions mean and how they affect each other. Then the training requirements lay in different places around the regulations and I'm not able to link them together.
If you know of any website or any prologue that could help me understand better how this works I'd be grateful.
Thank you, and have a nice weekend.
(PS: Some of you may think the gliding club where I will start my training should know this, but the problem is they seem to be more or less in the same boat. Portugal has just implemented EASA rules for gliders this very year, so they seem to be finding their way through as well.)
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Pablo, I suggest you email the British Gliding Association. If anybody has this sort of information....which keeps changing all the time....they will!
Tell them Mary Meagher suggested this....I have always found them very helpful.
Tell them Mary Meagher suggested this....I have always found them very helpful.
Pablo,
Your PIC time in aeroplanes gives you 7 hours credit towards the 15 hours in sailplanes before you can apply for a SPL. In the remaining 8 hours of training you will need to do at least 3 hours dual, 45 take-offs & landings, 2 hours of supervised solo & the 50km/100km navigation flight. (FCL.110.S & 210.S)
You will also have to do the glider specific exams in principles of flight, operational procedures, flight performance & planning, aircraft general knowledge & navigation. (FCL.215)
The syllabus is in AMC.FCL.110.S; 210.S.
Your PIC time in aeroplanes gives you 7 hours credit towards the 15 hours in sailplanes before you can apply for a SPL. In the remaining 8 hours of training you will need to do at least 3 hours dual, 45 take-offs & landings, 2 hours of supervised solo & the 50km/100km navigation flight. (FCL.110.S & 210.S)
You will also have to do the glider specific exams in principles of flight, operational procedures, flight performance & planning, aircraft general knowledge & navigation. (FCL.215)
The syllabus is in AMC.FCL.110.S; 210.S.
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Mary,
thanks a lot for the advice
The website already has some information on licensing.
https://old.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/li...troduction.htm
I'll take a look at some of the items there and if still in further doubt I'll contact them no doubt.
Btw... you have lots of constructive posts and info here in the forum. When I ran a forum search on gliding/soaring/etc... you came up in many threads. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.
Prop swinger,
thank you for the regulation references, it's been quite useful to connect the dots and get the picture.
Typical EASA-ish stuff.
Not that I care much about flying a few hours more or less, in the end my goal is to fly as much as possible, but I don't understand why they validate roughly half the flight training time to spank you with another requirement.
In fact I was interested in validating part of my flight time because I thought the SPL would take more hours flight training, 15hrs is pretty reasonable anyway.
thanks a lot for the advice
The website already has some information on licensing.
https://old.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/li...troduction.htm
I'll take a look at some of the items there and if still in further doubt I'll contact them no doubt.
Btw... you have lots of constructive posts and info here in the forum. When I ran a forum search on gliding/soaring/etc... you came up in many threads. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.
Prop swinger,
thank you for the regulation references, it's been quite useful to connect the dots and get the picture.
In the remaining 8 hours of training you will need to do:
at least 3 hours dual,
2 hours of supervised solo,
the 50km/100km navigation flight.
45 take-offs & landings
at least 3 hours dual,
2 hours of supervised solo,
the 50km/100km navigation flight.
45 take-offs & landings
Not that I care much about flying a few hours more or less, in the end my goal is to fly as much as possible, but I don't understand why they validate roughly half the flight training time to spank you with another requirement.
In fact I was interested in validating part of my flight time because I thought the SPL would take more hours flight training, 15hrs is pretty reasonable anyway.
