BEagle,
Are you quite certain that the first revalidation must be by flight test rather than seminar (if you've flown the 100/30 instructional hours)? Mine is due in about a year, and I keep getting different answers on this. Several people said I had to do a test, then both an examiner and someone from one of the organisations running seminars told me I definitely wouldn't! Now you say I do. I can find nothing about it in LASORS or anywhere else. Please can you point me to where it says in writing that I have to do a test. I'd really like to get this sorted out, and I'd be happier to rely on the written word rather than numerous opinions.
Oh, and I'm a rotary FI, in case it makes any difference...I'm pretty certain it doesn't.
Delta Wun Wun,
If you get it all sorted before the three years finishes, and you have 100 instructional hours, with 30 in the last year, you can do a test OR a seminar...subject to complicated rules about which of those two you do.
And it's called a revalidation. If you leave it longer than the three years, you have to attend a seminar AND do a test, and it's called a renewal.
However, since I don't claim to be an expert, having only about as much or as little experience as you, maybe checking LASORS as BEagle suggest isn't such a bad idea anyway.
