Aerobatic Flyer
6th Mar 2003, 21:27
According to the latest issue of Info-Pilote, the magazine of the Fédération National Aéronautique in France, it will soon be possible to obtain an FI rating in France without having a CPL, and without having sat the CPL theory exams.
Candidates will be required to sit a special theory exam organised by the SFACT (Service de la Formation Aéronautique et du Controle Technique - part of the French CAA, with responsibility for training). This exam will be sat at a testing centre in Paris, and will last a full day. The content will be based on the PPL theory syllabus.
Having passed this theory exam, candidates will then be required to take 18 to 20 hours of theory training in their chosen training organisation, before carrying out the practical training.
After training, non-remunerated instruction for PPL students will be permitted. To be paid, or to carry out any instruction for additional ratings, candidates will need a CPL and additional FI training.
The article doesn't say when this is going to happen, but implies that it will be very soon.
Speaking as a PPL who would like to instruct one day, this seems like a good idea (although I might feel differently if I'd got a CPL and was trying to eke out a living as an instructor....) But doesn't it make a bit of a mockery of the supposed JAA harmonisation? Different levels of knowledge are needed to instruct for exactly the same licence depending on what country you're instructing in.... :confused:
Candidates will be required to sit a special theory exam organised by the SFACT (Service de la Formation Aéronautique et du Controle Technique - part of the French CAA, with responsibility for training). This exam will be sat at a testing centre in Paris, and will last a full day. The content will be based on the PPL theory syllabus.
Having passed this theory exam, candidates will then be required to take 18 to 20 hours of theory training in their chosen training organisation, before carrying out the practical training.
After training, non-remunerated instruction for PPL students will be permitted. To be paid, or to carry out any instruction for additional ratings, candidates will need a CPL and additional FI training.
The article doesn't say when this is going to happen, but implies that it will be very soon.
Speaking as a PPL who would like to instruct one day, this seems like a good idea (although I might feel differently if I'd got a CPL and was trying to eke out a living as an instructor....) But doesn't it make a bit of a mockery of the supposed JAA harmonisation? Different levels of knowledge are needed to instruct for exactly the same licence depending on what country you're instructing in.... :confused: