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Old 19th Sep 2002, 08:03
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FlyingForFun

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Hi!

First of all, you'll need to do the written exams. If there is absolutely no chance of you ever wanting to do anything beyond instructing, you can do the CPL exams. But if there's even the slightest chance you'll want to do an Instrument Rating and get a frozen ATPL in the future, then do the ATPL exams. Don't know about CPL exams, but I believe you can do the ATPL exams for about £4000 (can someone confirm the price) if you do a full-time residential course, which would definitely be the best way to go as long as you don't currently have another job or other commitments which would stop you from doing this. If you can't study full time, or you want to keep costs down, you can do a distance learning course instead, which will cost you about £2000.

When you say "recently qualified", how recently do you mean? You might have to do some hour-building. The next stage in your training is a CPL, but you need 150 hours before you can start this, and 200 hours before license issue. The training is a minimum of 25 hours, so let's say allow 30 hours including a couple of hours for the test itself, and a couple of hours above the minimums, and if you start with 150 hours you could well finish with 180 hours - still 20 hours short of what you need for license issue. So you probably want to hour-build to at least 170 hours before starting the CPL. The cost of this will depend on lots of factors - will you be renting? Here or abroad? Or will you buy your own aircraft, or a share in your aircraft? If you're buying, is it PFA or CofA? Etc, etc, etc.

After the CPL, you'll need to do a flight instructors course. Don't know any details about how many hours are required for this, though - sorry.

You'll probably also find it helpful to have an IMC rating. This will allow you to take your students into IMC (for example, during the small amount of instrument training you'll do, or if the exercise your doing can be done on top of the clouds) once you're an instructor. There are minimum requirements for starting this, but there's no reason why you can't do the rating as part of your hour building, so it won't need to increase your total number of hours, and therefore won't affect the cost too much.

There is a lot more detail that I've left out... for example, I'm sure there's a minimum P1 requirement for getting a CPL, something like 100 hours but I can't quite remember. I'm sure others will fill in the gaps. But this should at least give you an idea of what is required. Then, you'll have to find a job

Good luck!

FFF
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