Ifitaint wrote
>>Firstly, the PFA Coaching Scheme do not do any ab-initio training, and so would not undertake a Microlight to NPPL conversion. >>>>
Actually, it wouldn't be ab initio training since you get an NPPL, albeit (microlight).
On the other point, you can do ab initio traning on an unlicensed airfield for an NPPL (microlight). And, if I recall right, any hours flown on a microlight from an unlicensed airfield can count towards the 32 hours for a NPPL (SSEA), which does have to be finished from a licensed field.
However, NPPL training hours on a microlight from an unlicensed airfield used to gain a NPPL (SSEA) then do not count if going for an ICAO recognised license! But ones on a weightshift microlight from a licenced airfield do - or perhaps don't if flown in an evening after the published licensed hours end?
Complex, huh? Logical, eh?
Hence my inability to completely digest the ANO and Lasors to answer my own questions.
And my lack of knowledge of what is in the pipeline.
Very best, will PM you about PFA coaching for interest, although I am a weightshift man myself.