Microlight hours
 

Sorry if this has been asked before...
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Does time on fixed wing microlights count towards EASA CPL?

Just looking into my options as there is a microlight club a few miles from me and some of their "microlights" look significantly higher spec than the 1970s C152 that I did my original FAA PPL on 15 years ago!

By all means grow a beard, wear grey socks with sandals, and fly a microlight ...

Just don't fly over my golf course when I'm putting, as seems to be the wont of those with such inclinations.

Thanks

To give you a useful answer if not the one you were hoping for: no, not for the time being anyway. Microlight time can be used towards the requirements for SEP Revalidation by Experience, which often adds confusion.

Certain microlight time can also be used towards the FAA CPL.

Pre-EASA, JAA counted 10% of my 3-axis microlight hours towards my JAR PPL. If I'd done it a couple of years earlier as a UK PPL, IIRC I'd have been allowed 35 hours off the 45hr minima for my UK PPL(A) for holding a UK PPL(D).

FAA counted all of my 3-axis microlight hours towards my FAA CPL.

In EASAland, EASA counted none of my microlight hours towards my EASA CPL.

The goalposts keep moving, but so far as I know the only one that really matters is that you can count 3-axis microlight hours towards SEP currency in EASAland right now. I've heard of proposals for microlight hours to count towards the EASA CPL, but nothing concrete - and with the UK now leaving EASA, that lobby is likely to be much weakened. Maybe in coming years they'll count in some way towards a UK CPL and more generously again towards a UK PPL, but I wouldn't hold your breath, given all of the other, and to them higher, priorities UK CAA will have to deal with in its first few years flying solo again.