SEP Renewal
 

Hi folks,

November 2015, my EASA SEP class rating expires. No worries, you have plenty of time to do the minimum 12 hrs + 12 take-offs/landings, you say (plus the 1 hr with a CRI/FI). And you are right. The thing is I might not be able to afford 12 hrs in a C172 next year (I will earn next to nothing).

The good news is that I will be flying a lot as copilot on a turboprop. So my question is: If I let my SEP expire, what will I have to do when I eventually want to fly that C172 again? Is it a full skill test? And if I do, after all, decide to fly 12 hrs and revalidate my SEP, does all the 12 hrs have to be in a SEP, or can I count any of the multi-pilot hrs I do in the big one?

Training as required (realistically, an hour with a current SEP instructor if you're that current on the turboprop), then a proficiency check.

The PC is officially not a full skill test, in practice the differences are trivial, so you may as well regard it as being one.


The requirement is 12 hours, of which 6 must be PiC and 1 with an instructor; the instructor hour can be for any purpose. But for you, it sounds like the PC is by far the cheaper option.

G

AIUI I'm afraid that yes, the 12 hours must be SEP. (Some complications with SLMG which I don't understand...)

don't forget that your routine OPC on the turboprop will count in place of the hour under instruction.

Your cheapest method of keeping your SEP current would be a annual skills check probably.

The confusion is between a Licence Issue Skill Test (only ever completed once) and a Proificiency Check used for revalidation and renewal which is shorter than the Issue Test.
No complication, SEP and TMG hours are interchangeable not SLMG!
No you do not, all that is required is a PC with an Examiner!

Don't forget that any retraining you need to do has to be with an RF/ATO and the CFI/HoT must issue you with a Course Completion Certificate before you can do the PC with an Examiner,


MJ:ok:

And even if you don't do any retraining; you still need a Course Completion Certififcate issued by a ATO/RF showing no training conducted!

In case or renewal , is it a requirement to send the Course Completion Certificate
and examiners report to the CAA?

Yes, all such reports go to the CAA however; so long as the rating is in the licence, the examiner can sign it and there is nothing to pay the CAA.