Desert Strip Basher
26th Apr 2013, 08:07
I seem to recall someone on here saying a while back that when he added a TMG class rating to his SEP(Land) class rating on his PPL he advised aligning both to the same date such that he didn't keep having to send forms off to revalidate either rating? Is this strictly necessary as it seems you'd have to wait up to 2yrs to get a chance to align them at the next revalidation. My thinking was once you had a TMG rating added, simply keeping the SEP(Land) valid would be ok (and the TMG hours would count to do this).
Prop swinger
26th Apr 2013, 19:58
The trouble is that an examiner has to sign off both the SEP & TMG rating before they expire to revalidate them.
If you're revalidating by experience the 'experience' part has to be "within the 12 months preceding the expiry date of the rating". If (at the extreme) your SEP & TMG ratings expire 12 months apart, every year would be a revalidation year, one year for SEP, the next year TMG. Revalidation by proficiency check has to be done within 3 months of the expiry of the rating.
How much of a nuisance that is depends on your circumstances.