Moving onto your question about flying abroad. The NPPL website has all the info you need. The basic answer is that an NPPL holder can now fly to France, the Channel Islands and Isle of Mann, as long as certain criteria are met. These are more fully explained on the website but basically are, hold an ICAO class 2 medical, completed minimum of 40 hours total time, 10 hours solo and 5 hours solo cross country. Coupled with this, you must have completed at least one solo xc of 150 miles with two full stop landaways at different fields to that of depature/arrival.
I would consider those criteria to be Euroblurb for "No you can't"
The NPPL crosscountry is 100 miles. The medical is a GP autograph, mine cost £15.
The PPL cross country is 150 miles & a class 2 medical ~£250.
So are Europe asking a NPPL holder to upgrade to a full PPL before they can fly there?
Prob irrelevent soon anyway once the LAPL gets here.
Anyway Scotland is a far better place to fly to.
