cavortingcheetah wrote:
Perhaps you should email the CAA FCL and ask them what they would require from you to issue a new licence which I presume would have to be an EASA one.
Absolutely the
wrong approach to take. Your first action should be to download CAP 804 and study the requirements to renew your licence and ratings. Only if you have some obscure, non-standard query should you bother the CAA when you can easily find out the answers yourself.
The prerequisites for instructing at either LAPL or PPL level are stated in CAP 804 and it will be up to you to decide at which level you may wish to instruct.
However, age alone is not an issue.
A lot has changed in the past 12 years, although the requirements to renew a licence are actually simpler than they were in pre-JAA days. For example, you wouldn't need to pass any theoretical knowledge exams again, except perhaps those applicable to the FRTOL.