I'm sure you can look up stuff in CAP804 and EASA-FCL like the rest of us, but to help you out while you do.
- Military hours should count towards course minima, but you still need an applicable course completion certificate. In any case, just go see your favoured school's CFI. Military / UAS training differs in approach from civil training, so you're likely to need a bit of additional instructional time.
- EASA-PPL, + CPL writtens qualify you to take the FI course.
- You can now (thanks to a recentish rule change) be paid to teach at PPL level.
- You need an ICAO PPL (not necessarily an EASA one) to take start the CPL course. You need to do all the groundschool first, but you can hourbuild then in parallel with groundschool. Once you have both hours and a set of exam passes, you can start the CPL flying course. You do not need the CPL flying course to take the FI course, only the PPL, hours and CPL writtens.
- Most people prefer to take the ATPL writtens, which avoids separate IR writtens later, and also allows you to fly mandatory multi-crew which is not possible on CPL/IR with only CPL writtens.
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