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Hi All,

Anyone got experience or any good pointers dealing with CAA and the Airspace Co-ordination and Obstacle Management Portal to request a temporary airspace restriction just for drones?

Cheers in advanced
Tomtytom

Hey everyone, I'm a Canadian ATPL holder with ATR and 737 time. I'm looking to convert my Canadian licence to a UK one.
Just wondering if you have any tips for the exams? If anyone has done this conversion before I'd love to know more.

Cheers

I see that hours flown in a three axis microlight count towards the 12 hours required for maintaining my SEPL rating. Does the same apply to the flight with an instructor? ie can I get my training flight and licence sign off for my PPL by doing...

Good morning,

Does anyone know the CAA’s current stance on weather hours built on the Vigilant TMG through the RAF’s Volunteer Gliding Squadrons can be claimed after PPL issue?

I’m fairly confident this was something which could be done in the...

It's been a long time (around 13 years or so) since I last flew, and I'm getting the itch to fly again. Life etc. kind of got in the way and like many things flying slid off the radar.

My bit of paper from the CAA is the old JAR FCL licence (needed...

I’m selling my SkyEcho. I claimed the rebate when I purchased it. Can the person buying it from me claim the rebate?

I’d imagine maybe not, but I can’t find anything definitive either way, does anyone know?

CAA website hard to navigate.

To carry out a CBIR with a CPL from 20 years ago. As I can see you get credit for Hp Met and Comms, leaves airlaw aircraft general knowledge flight planning and radio nav to do. 4 Exams.

I am an FI who has carried out...

Aside from needing to pass an SEP PC under the auspices of TO, the question is in the title!

I’m taking antidepressants for maintenance purposes but my meds are not on the CAA approved list. Back in 2019 Peter Orton at Stansted successfully gained CAA approval to issue a LAPL medical so that I could start flight training. I had to interrupt...

I have a NPPLm, however won’t have chance to fly with an instructor before the two years is up. I have triple the required hours but not the instructor hour or signing.

I’m hoping to upgrade to the SSEA NPPL when I’m back in the U.K. as I am...

Hello,
I moved to the UK a couple of years ago, and a change in life circumstances has me looking into flying again. I hold both an FAA and Transport Canada fixed-wing commercial license (I don’t have my ATPL), with IR and ME ratings. I have 1000hrs...

Following the sad demise of our last aircraft the group is looking at buying an N reg aircraft. We are a mix of 3 PPL holders, one NPPL and one LAPL. I assume the aircraft will be owned in a US Trust. Does anyone know for sure if the NPPL and LAPL...

Hi all,

I'm very close to being able to apply for the removal of the (r) from my F.I. (r) rating. Apologies for the acronyms for those who aren't sure, it's the Flight Instructor (restricted) rating.
I have the required number of hours and thought...

I've tried my best to find an answer to this but I'm drawing a blank.

What was so special about this date, which seemed to draw an arbitrary line in the sand stopping NPPL holders from upgrading to an NPPL (via an LAPL?).

I've heard that this...

Hi Folks,

I have begun refresher training with the goal of getting back to holding a valid licence and rating. I have (had?) a JAR-PLL SEP with night rating issued by the CAA in 2001 which expired 2005 and a FROL which expired 16/01/2012 . In my...

Assuming the student is a part owner of a group A aeroplane.

Student has NPPL(M) Microlight licence and wants to train in the owned group A.

Is adding SSEA to the existing NPPL (M) licence classed as ab initio from an insurance perspective ?

My Class 2 expires soon and as I ended up with a LAPL, not full PPL, I've been looking at a PMD - which seems laughably simple - instead of going to an AME.

Just reading the small print card that came with the licence, it states very clearly...

I am trying to get an EASA Class 2 Medical for an EASA PPL. The medical pre-application form on the web requires a Spanish licence number in order to apply for a medical to get a Spanish licence number....
Classic Catch-22, how do you fill the form...

Hi,

Does anyone knows of any UK CAA instructors based on the west side of the USA (Southern California ideally) please?

I’m looking to reval my SEP by experience in the next year, so am hoping to find someone to come for a flight around Southern...

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I have a hereditary hearing loss from birth which is corrected by small (fully in ear) Widex hearing aids. My loss is below the minimum thresholds for a class 1 medical, and I visited the CAA for an initial medical but was declined on the...

This might be a bit of an odd question so let me try and build up to it / explain it via some scenarios:

- - - - -
Scenario A:

Let's say you have an NPPL(A) with Microlight rating and since getting that licence you have 100+ P1 hours on...

I hold a NPPL (M) . The validation expired Sept 2015. I also have a lapsed NPPL (SSEA) issued 2007 .
I am considering flying again on the same basis but 3 axis microlights only. Having trawled seemingly endless links and links of links I have yet to...

Hi All
pretty sure this is ok now, but just wanted to check I can fly a Part21 into Channel Islands.

Ive seen the article in flyer

Mentions NPPL and PMD but not Part21.
Looking to go Alderney when the Sea is a bit warmer!

B1

Hey guys, I'm currently doing training for a PPL and hope to eventually obtain an CPL+IR/ATPL. As I'm doing my PPL, 3 days ago, I did my initial class two and ermmm, I didn't quite get it? Due to a number of factors, my AME wants me to visit a...

Please could I clarify something with others, just so I fully understand. I think I do, but then again, I'm usually wrong.

I hold NPPL(A) with microlight rating and I'm about to start my SSEA 'upgrade'. I fly 3-axis, not flex-wing.

CAP804 (which...

I have not been able to find a definitive answer in the regulations, but do instructional hours as CRI (SE and ME) and IRI count for the purpose of removing the restriction from the FI certificate?

For EASA, not UK CAA.

Ages ago I remember seeing a ppl from the late 1990s that had been issued after a microlight training course, still using 5/13 stamps on the log book, and the odd thing was it had 'issued to icao standards' or similar words on the first page. (!!)...

Prompted by Irv’s post regarding foreign licences I had a look at the LAPL section of

As a NPPL(A) SSEA holder post April 2018 and trapped I was drawn to the following passage

Applicants for a LAPL who have held another licence in the same...

Hi all,

I have an NPPL (M) which I'm currently adding SSEA to. I have tailwheel differences signed off on the NPPL (M) - would this also apply to the SSEA rating, or only to microlights?

Thanks

Useful, even remembers to mention FRTOL needed for radio use, unlike previous documents/pages.

My views on some aspects are on the gold plate sub forum:

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but I did not find it via the search.

If a PPL(A) undertakes differences training in a sub-450kg microlight, does the sign-off cover sub-450 kg machines only, with further differences training required to...

Just wondering if anyone is aware of any recent progress in respect of the above?

Many have been hoping for some positive news on this front since 2018, when the paperwork only route to LAPL expired.

As it says, really - I have to do Principles of Flight, and Aircraft General. Are there implications with being 'in the same window', and how long are they valid for? Do they have to be done a certain amount of time before the GST?

(I appreciate...

I am thoroughly confused by the CAA FCL. The impression I get from the FCL site is that I can no longer use my UK-issued "EASA" PPL after 1st Jan 23 and I must apply to convert my license. Have I been living under a rock or is this not so?...

Hi all.

I'd like to think my question is fairly straightforward, but I just can't get to the bottom of this in a post-2018 context.

I have a NPPL (M). I would like to add SSEA to it, because then the revalidation requirement is really easy (hours...

What do I need to perform to have a single pilot IR endorsed on my licence?

I have an existing and current ATPL, valid multi crew IR, valid SEP but long-expired single pilot IR.

Any pointers on where to find reference would be appreciated.

I’m hoping to do some flying while abroad (outside EU), this flying will be P/UT in SEP aircraft. I hold a LAPL(SSEA), can I log the hours and count them towards my total hours, or because it won’t be in a G-reg aircraft can I not count them towards...

I wonder if anyone here can help? I’ve been asked to sign a certificate of experience for the holder of an UK issued PPL(A)(Microlight) issued before the cut-off date of 1 Feb 2008. In fact, the licence was issued in Nov 2000 and so is valid for...

Hi all,

The question’s in the title - is there a way to track PPL application on the CAA website? My application went in Thursday 3rd November, got an email saying they’d received it but nothing since. I know it takes 10 working days, but wondered...

Hi All,

A flying friend of mine (NPPL(SSEA)) has insulin dependant diabetes which he strictly monitors. He attained his licence in January 2010 and his medical declaration was restricted to fly alone or with a 'safety pilot'. In the last couple of...

At present, only those student pilots training on non-Part 21 aeroplanes for the NPPL may fly solo using a PMD.

As the PMD scheme has proved itself over the last few years, I would be interested in the opinion of the FLYER medical experts as to...

Hi all, having completed a fantastic Instructor Course I am just waiting to do my Assessment of Competence, hopefully in the next week or 2. If I'm successful (and if the examiner agrees) I'll be issued with a temporary certificate to allow me to...

One of my group ( who is not on any forums) has an NPPL with a PMD.
He has been recently diagnosed with artrial fibrillation.
He is on medication for this and now has no systems.
His cardiologist tells him that AF is NOT heart failure , and is a...

I live in Italy most of the time but I spend 2-3 months a year in the UK. My current mount is G registered PTF and thanks to a combination of ECAC and Italian laissez faire, I have experienced no problems commuting to and from. Some time in the next...

The title says it all.

I have an elderly new student with extensive gliding experience who wants to go for a brand new NPPL licence in order to fly Part 21 club aircraft. He has no ambition to fly abroad, in cloud, instruct or IFR.

The advantage...

A friend of mine has asked if I can revalidate his CAA Part FCL PPL SEP Rating.

He's been flying flex-wings for the last couple of years and has not flown a fixed wing SEP for over two years.

I can provide the 'one hour flying time with an...

I hold an European Union FCL issued by the CAA in 2014 with level 6 language.
My medical is a class 2 issued by the CAA.
I also have the Certificate of validation, valid until 31st December 2022
Can some kind person please tell me which CAA form I...

I'm having a bit of trouble with a syndicate trustee, who has absented themselves, along with the aircraft paperwork. They have left their old address (no forwarding information), and do not reply to emails/Whatsapps/calls/letters from myself or...

Sorry, I know this has been done to death. But have the rules changed within the the past 2 years!

Please allow me to explain. Yesterday I approached the QFI who I did my last biennial instructor hour flight with in Sept 2020 with a view to doing...

I am a current glider pilot and fly on a LAPL (S). Sailplane.
I would also like to fly a sub 70Kg flex wing. What would be the minimum training required to get on with it? :?: