EASA PPL application
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Please ensure you complete the EASA PPL application form with your CFI. There are pitfalls and some so far have not been covered here.
You are NOT converting your UK PPL to EASA. You are having the EASA PPL issued on the basis of holding your UK PPL. The UK issued EASA PPL will cover you for both EASA aircraft and UK registered Annex 11.
In the form there is a Tick Box asking you to tick it if you wish to retain your UK PPL. TICK this box. The effect of this is that they will then re-issue your old UK PPL but in the new format (identical to your EASA licence). This licence has the certificate of validation pages included within it. You do not therefore need a separate validation page. There is NO charge for this UK PPL re-issue as long as you tick the box now.
In the section where your ratings are entered include all ratings that you have held with expiry dates; i.e. Night Rating, IMC, RT licence etc. It doesn't matter if they are a long time out of date. Those not currently valid will be entered in a section on the back of the EASA licence ready for future validation. The Night Rating, if you held it, no longer expires, so it will be included in the licence as normal. Your RT licence even if it has expired will be included as a lifetime privilege in the new licenses. DO NOT rely on the CAA to pick up any of this up from your records, because they most likely will not.
The IMC rating will be referred to as the IRR (IR restricted) on the EASA licence but on the UK PPL it will still be the IMC rating.