License expired after 5 years?
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License expired after 5 years?
This has just happened. Flown lots of hours, got my mic but just wondering what I need to do to get my license sorted again?
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If you've just had a letter from the CAA, then it's a paper exercise to complete the form, photocopy your medical, complete the payment form, and post it all off. It is just a case of renewing the actual paper licence.
I have just had to do this for my PPL(H), new licence turned up in the post about a week later. I thought they all had a 5 year expiry on them.
If it's not that, then some more details would help others explain what is going on.
I have just had to do this for my PPL(H), new licence turned up in the post about a week later. I thought they all had a 5 year expiry on them.
If it's not that, then some more details would help others explain what is going on.
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I thought they all had a 5 year expiry on them.
Nope. Plenty of us around who've got real lifetime non-expiring licences
Nope. Plenty of us around who've got real lifetime non-expiring licences
A lifetime CAA licence issued pre JAR does not expire but isn't automatically replaced by an EASA licence and will become invalid for EASA aircraft soon.
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I wouldn't rely on a letter from the CAA to remind you about licence expiry either. I'd get the forms and send 'em off.
Last edited by Johnm; 17th Aug 2012 at 08:47.
As I understand it JAR licences expire but will be replaced automatically with EASA licences that don't. A current JAR licence is considered to be an EASA licence until it expires and is replaced.
Your JAA licence is deemed to be an EASA licence because that is decreed in the EU regulation and requires no action by the CAA. When the JAA licence expires, there will be no action unless the holder initiates it.
Download and complete SRG 1102 to have your old licence re-issued. If you wait till mid Sept it will come back as an EASA licence that will be valid for life
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A lifetime CAA licence issued pre JAR does not expire but isn't automatically replaced by an EASA licence and will become invalid for EASA aircraft soon.
A lifetime CAA licence issued pre JAR does not expire
I have a vague feeling it might be some time in 2014?
UK licences will cease to be valid on EASA aircraft at midnight on 7th April 2014