Required license for different aircraft
 

Hello everyone.

I apologise if this is in the wrong forum. This is my first post here and there are so many sub-forums that it's easy to get confused. I think this is the most appropriate place to post this.

I am a PPL student and am slowly working my way through it (full time university student means not a whole lot of money! One lesson every two weeks approx). I just wanted some information regarding the validity of the PPL and further training required to fly certain other aircraft. Please note that I am obviously not intending to fly all of these aircraft - but I would eventually like to move on to maybe one of them (to achieve personal ambitions) and be able to fly it.

So essentially I would like to know what requirements (besides the PPL) would a person need to legally own and fly one of these;

1. Hurricane/Spitfire/P-51 etc. The powerful/relatively heavy single prop crowd.

2. Something like the Viperjet - turbofan engine (2950lbf dry thrust) - ridiculously fast.

I have tried to research it online but given my low experience I can't really put together the information. I assume that they are beyond your basic type ratings? If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

Thanks, J.

Edit: I'm not naive enough to be expecting to own or fly a spitfire etc, I'm just using that kind of aircraft as examples.

A good starting point would be the CAA LASOR's:

Reference:LASORS
Title:LASORS 2008
Description:The LAS section brings together in one easily understandable book all the flight crew licensing information otherwise found in JAR-FCL, the UK ANO, AICs and the old CAPs 53/54. Regulations and procedures do change between the annual publishing of LASORS and these updates are notified by AICs and published on our website Personnel Licensing | Safety Regulation. The ORS section is also by no means in its definitive format. If it can be enhanced to make the whole book more valuable to the pilot it will be. The aim is to give pilots a one-stop reference for all aspects of safe aeroplane operation.

2008 LASORS are available here:

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/LASORS2...ookmarked).pdf

Bed time reading?

Yours are quite particular questions but hopefully you find a few answers in the above. If not, give the CAA a call, they're more friendly and helpful than we like to give them credit for! :E

Thanks for that. I'm doing my aviation law at the minute so I should really have gone straight to the LASOR'S. It'll definately give me a good start anyway. I think I probably will end up ringing the CAA for some guidance, or discussing it with certain members of my flying school (one of whom is building a gorgeous mustang/hurricane type mix-up completely from scratch!). He's hard to get hold of though, hence why I asked here.

I know my question was vague, but I was only looking for a point in the right direction. Pljus I'm sure there must be a few civvy warbird pilots on here who will be able to help.

Thanks again FlyBoy.