Oh isn't this some great bEuro-boll*cks!
So we have a chap who has just got a free LAPL (apart from fees) on the back of his NPPL SSEA.
But since he kept his NPPL SSEA valid by using the hours on his microlight (since he also had a microlight rating on his NPPL) plus an hour with a SSEA instructor, he can't actually use his LAPL!
Of course, to use his LAPL the day after it arrived in the post, he needs to have light aircraft hours. And he can't even reval by test, since he would have to do about 12 of them!!
How could you have made this up?!
(yes, I know, he just does the light aircraft hours on his NPPL SSEA, but still, why d I have to explain this stuff? Are these rule makers just idiots, or are they professional red-tape-tanglers)