PPL LST
 

Anything to prevent ppl lst being undertaken after age 16 but before age 17? Appreciate licence cannot be issued before age17. Seed of doubt has been sown!!

You could try the following:

Thanks Whopity. Aware of both references but have always applied the 'ejusdem generis' rule insofar that once all training requirements have been fulfilled - and these can only be be achieved post age 16 - the LST can be conducted to theoretically allow the applicant to make a licence application one minute after s/he attains age 17?

A lot of people have done it it but an awkward Examiner could put a spanner in the works.

AS an Examiner I was told by the CAA that you could not test anyone until their 17th Birthday

Flying foxhunter congratulations on getting guidance or an answer from our erstwhile regulator. Unfortunately for all of us it is diametrically opposed to the guidance and answer provided to no lesser a body than AOPA I believe. This is not to be confrontational, but simply to highlight the awful lack of joined-up thinking that has become the stock in trade of the Authority that generates contradiction, confusion and uncertainty particularly across both private and professional licensing. Rant ends.

Neither AOPA nor the CAA make the rules and neither have the remit to change them. The regulation does state that all requirements for licence issue shall have been met before the Examiner can conduct the Skill Test and it is the Examiner's responsibility to check. EASA seem to regard these inflexible rules and irrational requirements as some sort of Standardisation. It must be safe if we follow the rules, even if we don't know why!

Hello there, I've started ppl ground exam studies, currently I'm living in Canada but my mentor is asking me to take easa course, he is suggesting me it's better and quicker to finish and required flying hours are less than Canadian atpl. Please suggest me with pros and cons of this dicision. I'm really confused