ATPL writtens - Do you HAVE to do an approved course?
Stupid question maybe. The question came up and I don't know. Do you have to enrol in an approved ground school course and pay the full amount? Or can you simply buy the books or CDs yourself, join a question bank and attend the two week crammer course when needed. Thus saving money.
The individual concerned had done national ATPL exams years ago, got an Instrument rating but let it expire so has to redo the writtens in order to renew it. This time under JAR or EASA or whatever it is now.
The guy already holds an JAA CPL issued on the basis of his previous national CPL and had taken and passed the equivalent exams previously. In fact he also did the CPL exams before that. So this would be his third time doing the writtens. And no I don't know what he was thinking!
Does anyone know if an exemption would be granted from having to do the approved course because frankly he should pretty much know it by now after passing two sets of exams previously?