Morning all,
As with all changes to JAR FCL documents the amendments have to go through the proper consultation process which can take quite a while. The change to entry requirements for instructors (250h) has been agreed on by the JAA Licensing Sub-Sectorial Team for helicopters earlier this year. This and other proposed changes to JAR-FCL 2 are now published as NPA FCL-2-20 (Notice of proposed amendment) until the 1st of September 2004. This will give everyone the opportunity to register any concerns they may have on the document. Once the consultation is over the Licensing Sectorial Team will discuss the matter again and suggest further changes if necessary which are then referred to the Sub-Sectorial team. With a bit of luck it could all be agreed by this summer. Also as soon as the text has been formally approved by the JAA the CAA will be able to issue a temporary exemption until JAR-FCL 2 has been reissued.
The NPA FCL-2-20 can be found
here.
Hope this helps, just hang in there it’s going to happen!
Woolf