A student pilot, with or without GFPT, can continue training to PPL just as they can now.
If the student applies to have their GFPT changed to an RPL then they will have some hoops to jump through, more hoops if they want to lift the restrictions.
That's the way I understand it but am happy to stand corrected.
We won't be encouraging people to do the RPL, it's not a stepping stone (nor was the GFPT) and rather pointless IMO (as was the GFPT).
GFPT was a flight test, never a "licence" and not equivalent to the old RPPL or the new RPL.
Nor was it ever a prerequisite to doing the navigation training, it was always optional, and not mentioned on PPL test forms or in the ATOM. I actually can't remember when I last did one, would have been about six or seven years ago.
Many flying schools said it was compulsory a) because it was a great revenue raiser and b) because they could then send you on humungous solo cross countries more than three hours long.
Last edited by Clare Prop; 13th Aug 2014 at 11:25.