Originally Posted by
tucumseh
That's only for Air Cadets to train at civilian flying schools and like the original flying scholarships it only provides a limited amount of flying which I see now has been reduced to 12 hours u/t; hardly enough even to go solo whereas it used to be (when I was an ATC Sqdn Cdr) 30 hrs. Originally it was 35 hours which was sufficient to pass the PPL course but while HQAC have cut the hours down, the CAA now requires a minimum of 45 hours to get an EASA PPL or 30 hours to get a UK only Light Aircraft Pilot Licence; microlight only courses are shorter still.