How does the student (or FTO) prove that 100 hours have been done.
Training Records and until you can verify it, you can't recommend the student to
take the exams. This would of course mean that
no exams can be taken until
all the ground training is completed.
Not so,
A candidate can take any exam, at any time
*, if they have learnt the subject
and been recommended by their ATO
* = Taking in to account the 18 month and six sittings requirement
FCL.025 Theoretical knowledge examinations for the issue of licences
(2) Applicants shall only take the examination when recommended by the approved
training organisation (ATO) responsible for their training, once they have completed
the appropriate elements of the training course of theoretical knowledge instruction
to a satisfactory standard.
AMC1 FCL.025 Theoretical knowledge examinations for the issue of licences
TERMINOLOGY
The meaning of the following terms used in FCL.025 should be as follows:
(b) ‘Examination’: the demonstration of knowledge in one or more examination papers
By the end of their flying training (ie before Skill Test) PPL candidates must
have received 100 hours of theoretical instruction but there is no minimum
hours laid down before they can take one, or all, of the written exams.
I don't think ATPL candidates would be very pleased if they had to have
received
all their required hours of theoretical instruction before they
were allowed to take their first/first group of exams (isn't this where
the idea of, a limited number of, exam sittings comes from?)