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As a current ATPL with LPC/OPC every six months and 750 hours per year on glass/heavy jet, what other checks (C of E) are required to fly club/group/own aircraft in the Single Engine and Multi Engine Land class in the UK?
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Don't know the full answer to your question but I can't afford my own plane or the committment to a group plane. Thus for my few hours of annual SE I have to use club craft. I have found their check requirements far exceed any strictly legal requirements. I more-or-less have to do a PPL GFT every time I want to fly. I suspect this is partly insurance. I quite enjoy it - I always learn a little something from an instructor. But it is bloody expensive...
Don't know the full answer to your question but I can't afford my own plane or the committment to a group plane. Thus for my few hours of annual SE I have to use club craft. I have found their check requirements far exceed any strictly legal requirements. I more-or-less have to do a PPL GFT every time I want to fly. I suspect this is partly insurance. I quite enjoy it - I always learn a little something from an instructor. But it is bloody expensive...
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I bumped into my old instructor a couple of weeks ago who is now off doing things similar to you. He said he'd let his PPL lapse and had booked in to do a SPE skills test to get it back. Hope that helps.
I bumped into my old instructor a couple of weeks ago who is now off doing things similar to you. He said he'd let his PPL lapse and had booked in to do a SPE skills test to get it back. Hope that helps.
I'm in a similar situation.
I have to do LPC MEP each year. LPC SEP every two years (if I have less than the approved number of hours in a single)
My single crew IR is done on a twin which gets a separate line on the licence :SPA ME IR, valid for a year. If you do it on a twin then that allows you to use the priviledge of an IR in a single if you're feeling brave! It makes 4 visits to the sim for a 737 seem simple!
I have to do LPC MEP each year. LPC SEP every two years (if I have less than the approved number of hours in a single)
My single crew IR is done on a twin which gets a separate line on the licence :SPA ME IR, valid for a year. If you do it on a twin then that allows you to use the priviledge of an IR in a single if you're feeling brave! It makes 4 visits to the sim for a 737 seem simple!
