OPC periods.

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According to JAR-OPS you are required to do your OPC with 6 months periods, and you can do them up to 3 months before your expiry date, but is there a limit as to how close they can be?

I have a memory of reading somewhere that your OPCs has to be at least 4 months apart from eachother, but I can't seem to find it anywhere in JAR-OPS now that I look.

To examplify, if your periods are May/November, and you did your last OPC November 30th, do you have to wait until the 1st of April for the OPC to get the same date, or can you do it as early as the 1st of March?

Thanks for any help on this one.

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Operators normally want to meet training requirements/legislation/safety standards etc whilst watching cost.

When an OPC is passed, the validity period is "the remainder of the month of test plus 6 months".

An OPC passed in January therefore will be valid until 31st July.

A second OPC passed during the validity period of the first will be valid for the remainder of the month of test plus 6 months unless it is passed during the final three months of validity of the first OPC in which case the validity period of the second OPC commences at the expiry date if the first.

To minimise the number of OPCs that are needed per pilot each year, the checks are normally taken every 6 months.
However, if a pilot sits his OPC renewal before the last day of his crrent OPC's validity but not more than 90 days before, then there shall be no loss of validity period and 2 OPCs per year will surfice.

(Note, 90 days is subject to minor change because the 3 months prior to expiry might include Feb with only 28 days etc but the idea is clear I hope!)

Did this help??!!!

Regards

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