Renewing the PPL side of an ATPL licence
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Renewing the PPL side of an ATPL licence
Could someone tell me what I have to do to renew my single engine PPl after a 12 year lapse, currently flying airbuses but interested in doing some FUN flying.
There is no longer a PPL side to your ATPL. You may remember your ATPL of old stated that you could exercise the rights of a PPL on class A aeroplanes. This situation no longer exists.
What you need is a SEP (Single Engine Piston) or MEP (Multi Engine Piston) rating on your certificate of revalidation page to fly the respective types. Once you have this, you exercise the rights of your licence on these types whether it be for pleasure or profit.
To get this rating, simply go to your FTO (Flying Training Organisation) i.e. club of choice and complete enough training to take a Class Rating Skills Test, then take the test. The test now includes what used to be the GFT and the Nav test, but as a professional pilot you should be exempt the Nav element. On passing the test, you will be awarded the rating.
The rating now lasts 24 months (for the SEP). In the last 12 months, you have to have 12 hours in your logbook and an hour long flight with an instructor to be re-validated. If you don't have this, another skills test must be flown. The requirement for 12 hours on SEP types is not reduced by your professional flying.
All details are in LASORS, available on the CAA website.
What you need is a SEP (Single Engine Piston) or MEP (Multi Engine Piston) rating on your certificate of revalidation page to fly the respective types. Once you have this, you exercise the rights of your licence on these types whether it be for pleasure or profit.
To get this rating, simply go to your FTO (Flying Training Organisation) i.e. club of choice and complete enough training to take a Class Rating Skills Test, then take the test. The test now includes what used to be the GFT and the Nav test, but as a professional pilot you should be exempt the Nav element. On passing the test, you will be awarded the rating.
The rating now lasts 24 months (for the SEP). In the last 12 months, you have to have 12 hours in your logbook and an hour long flight with an instructor to be re-validated. If you don't have this, another skills test must be flown. The requirement for 12 hours on SEP types is not reduced by your professional flying.
All details are in LASORS, available on the CAA website.
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After 10+ years the CAA may want to give you a minimum requirement before your test.
You are exempt the bi-annual flight with an instructor if you can show you have been in the sim (LPC/OPC). This fulfils the "flight under formal conditions" requirement.
You are exempt the bi-annual flight with an instructor if you can show you have been in the sim (LPC/OPC). This fulfils the "flight under formal conditions" requirement.
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I.H. - are you talking JAA licence? I'm guessing "Yes" - in which case the questions to follow are:-
Do you want single pilot, single engine
Do you want single pilot, multi engine
Do you want your Instrument Rating qualifications to apply to them.
Drop me a line (P.M.) if you want the full story and, maybe, some clues as to how to go about it.
Do you want single pilot, single engine
Do you want single pilot, multi engine
Do you want your Instrument Rating qualifications to apply to them.
Drop me a line (P.M.) if you want the full story and, maybe, some clues as to how to go about it.
