Originally Posted by
rudestuff
You can credit 100 helicopter hours towards the CPL(A) as long as you hold an EASA CPL(H). Obviously there's a lot of grey areas so it's down to the individual NAA to interpret the rules. Mine interpreted it to mean that the Helicopter PIC
could count as airplane PIC which makes sense if you think it through: A PPL course and a CPL course is an absolute minimum of 50 hours dual. If they also required you to have 100 PIC(A) then why the 100 hour credit? 50 would make more sense. Ergo the PIC can count towards PIC.
In your case you would need to weigh up the cost of 65 hours PIC in an airplane against the cost of an EASA CPL(H) conversion (I think you need 155 for that?). I was in a similar situation and I got myself an extra licence for free plus saved a bit on money.
Thank you very much.
Unfortunately, I read that as the Helo PIC time can be counted against "total" time, not PIC. This is definitely something that each NAA can interpret in their own way and I'd need to contact them about it.