Windcheck, please download the Ammendment 7 for JAR-FCL 1 at:
JAR-FCL 1 - Search (the link starting with "1 December 2006 JAR-FCL-1 ......)
Then, go page 142 (1-F-3), section JAR-FCL-1.245 (a) - right column above..... and READ that paragraph..... IT READS TR VALIDITY IS FOR ONE YEAR, cojones!!!
YOU can always renew your TR within the 3 months previous to its expire date. If you don't, it will be "frozen" for a maximum of 36 months as I explained before.
Last year, I gave as instructor, several simulator sessions to a pilot that had left the A320 type rating NOT renewed for 4 years on his licence and he
HAD TO DO IT ALL AGAIN, just from
ZERO in a
NEW TR course, base training included.
I know what I'm talking about.
Spain is NOT the only JAA Country which specifies the "co-pilot" restriction on the type rating.... I hold a Portuguese ATPL(A) licence and I also had to take that restriction away at its moment, just like anyone in Spain, only difference is that I received my new licence in two days.
P.S: Regardless I'm spaniard and this ia spanish forum, I do write english for courtesy to others. Sorry for any typing fault or mistake, we spaniards are quite fans of making noise on this in aviation forums.
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Saludos y a ganar la Copa del Mundo!!
