Hours on type for instructing - it's changed again!
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The Original Whirly
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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
Hours on type for instructing - it's changed again!
In the old days (before my time) an FI could instruct on any type they had a rating for. Then came JAR, and you needed 15 hours on any type to instruct on it. Then, in the most recent LASORS, that got changed to 15 hours on type in the last year!
Well, it's changed again. I emailed the CAA to see if I could get a reduction in the 15 hours, to instruct on the R44. Back came a reply that in the latest regulations there is no specific number of hours before you can instruct on a new type, ie back to square one.
I think those who keep making and re-making the rules are completely insane, but I'm delighted. Other instructors, take note!
Well, it's changed again. I emailed the CAA to see if I could get a reduction in the 15 hours, to instruct on the R44. Back came a reply that in the latest regulations there is no specific number of hours before you can instruct on a new type, ie back to square one.
I think those who keep making and re-making the rules are completely insane, but I'm delighted. Other instructors, take note!
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From: uk
Below is an extract from JAR FCL I posted a few months ago. Which to my reading says as long as you have passed a proficiency check your are exempt from the 15 hours requirement.
I copy and pasted the extract from the web so it should be up to date.
JAR–FCL 2.330 FI(H) – Privileges and requirements
[Provided that in the preceding 12 months the FI(H) has completed not less than 15 hours of flight instruction (which may include skill testing/proficiency checking) on single-pilot helicopters, or passed, as a proficiency check, the skill test set out in Appendices 1 & 2 to JAR-FCL 2.330 and 2.345,] the privileges of the holder of FI(H) rating (for restrictions see JAR–FCL 2.325) are to conduct flight instruction for [the issue of]:
(a) [a] PPL(H) [ ]
(b) [ ] a CPL(H), provided that the FI(H) has
completed at least 500 hours of flight time as a pilot
of helicopters including at least 200 hours of flight
instruction;
(c) [type ratings for single-pilot single-engine
helicopters]
[(d) a helicopter] night [qualification]
I copy and pasted the extract from the web so it should be up to date.
JAR–FCL 2.330 FI(H) – Privileges and requirements
[Provided that in the preceding 12 months the FI(H) has completed not less than 15 hours of flight instruction (which may include skill testing/proficiency checking) on single-pilot helicopters, or passed, as a proficiency check, the skill test set out in Appendices 1 & 2 to JAR-FCL 2.330 and 2.345,] the privileges of the holder of FI(H) rating (for restrictions see JAR–FCL 2.325) are to conduct flight instruction for [the issue of]:
(a) [a] PPL(H) [ ]
(b) [ ] a CPL(H), provided that the FI(H) has
completed at least 500 hours of flight time as a pilot
of helicopters including at least 200 hours of flight
instruction;
(c) [type ratings for single-pilot single-engine
helicopters]
[(d) a helicopter] night [qualification]
