UAS hours into PPL
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From: Cambridge
I'd like to here more about this flying at Herts uni. It is new to me and i am in my final year now (aerospace systems) and have heard nothing except for the final year flying course that gets you a go in a warrior and the R22 at Elstree. Fortunately i learnt to fly jut before my industrial placement just over a year ago, but have always hoped the university would have a club to bring the costs down a bit. I guess its not a typical student hobbie!! Let me know anything and if not, then good luck for organising something. If it wasn't my final year i'd help out.
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From: Glen Prosen, Scotland
Rich49, in answer to your original query the answer lies in LASORS (get a copy from the CAA website - £10 plus P+P) and is on page 6 of Section C. Briefly, you have to: meet PPL issue minimum hours (which you will have with a UAS course), do a qualifying cross country flight with 2 landaways, pass the PPL ground exams including R/T practical, and pass the Skills Test. I'd recommend a couple of hours getting used to civvy aerodromes and procedures first. A couple of the lads at JEFTS were in the process when we closed but I don't know how far they got.
