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HI all
Forgive me if this has been covered - probably but in amongst much addtional detail on other posts

Im aware i can gain an EASA PPL in the US - groundschool training and licence

Is there anywhere in the UK to complete a FAA PPL as a...

Can someone tell me how to obtain extra pages for my CAA licence as I will soon be running out of pages with revalidation's in 2022....Thanks Chaps and Ladies :?:

Hi all,

Does anyone know if a CRI rating can be applied for at the same time as applying for a restricted FI(A) rating?

I’m in the latter stages of my FI course and to me it would seem beneficial to also obtain a CRI rating if possible. I can’t...

As those interested in the topic may recall, there was a lot of useful information shared over the last 18 months or so on the LAA forum, most notably the welcome news of the French loophole, allowing UK national licence holders to fly Permit...

So I was looking at further developing my skills to include a night rating. I thought that a VFR night rating was possible on NPPL SSEA rating. But a Google search for training seems to indicate it is not possible.

I had previously understood if on...

Hi, I got my PPL (A) SEP a couple of months ago and have been looking for my own plane. I found an Arrow II I like but was wondering about ratings.

I know I need a complex and high performance rating bring 200hp but reading the CAA website I see on...

I am a FI(A) Restricted and I am working under supervision at an ATO providing PPL instruction. However I have been asked by members of my ownership group if I can do biennials for members and 'convert' new members onto the aircraft including...

Just received from Skywise. I hope someone has told the SoS, and that he is still current :wink:

"REMINDER: FAA certificate holders permanently residing in the UK

The exemption to provide additional time for FAA Airman Certificate holders...

As above, I have, amongst others a UK PPL but only recently have I noted it has a SSEA (land) rating and not the SEP rating I thought it should have in it.

I changed my address in 2016 and the SSEA rating is confirmed by the top printed line on...

For those of you who deal with military credit applicants, the new scheme has been published as CAP2254 today.

We have also managed to get credit for University Air Squadron flying restored having lost it back in 2018 with the NPPL ‘loophole’...

Morning all,

I'm due to renew my class 2 medical next month, and it seems like AMEs are now offering 'UK' and 'EASA' as separate things (and with different costs). I have an EASA licence and my previous medical is (I think) an EASA one, so I guess...

Hi all,

Has anyone successfully converted a relatively new licence f(ATPL) from the UK to EASA? I'm sure someone out there has already been through this process, so thought I would give it a shot asking on this forum.

I've ended up with a UK...

Can a NPPL(SSEA) holder do his biennial 1 hour with instructor in a different class of aircraft, say a Microlight?

On the basis that it would be training to add the (M) endorsement?

Would this cover the biennial NPPL requirement or would an hour...

Does anyone have recent experience of how long they're taking at present?

I sent my application to renew my FROTL on 30th Aug, received an email next day stating they believed all documents requested were attached. heard nothing since!

Hi,

Could someone please advise if I can hire a club aircraft and fly solo with hours counting towards taking others up (10 hour rule) and my PPL after the LAPL test but before I have the physical document? I believe the CFI can 'sign me out' but...

Folks, I hope you can be of assistance to answer what is probably a silly question.

Are there under circumstances under which a pilot can perform practice instrument approaches without holding a valid instrument rating (restricted or otherwise)....

Okay so this is my first ever post here and i really need to clear my mind with some stuff!

I live in the UK and have done half of my PPL here already, i started in late 2019 and due to weather and lockdown 2 years later im still unable to...

Hello all,

I've only had one medical so far in my flying career, almost 5 years ago. I haven't been in contact with the AME since (no medical issues since), and have also moved to a different city. Does it work like a GP, in that I should go back...

Has anyone had any success recently changing an address on an NPPL please? I currently hold both a PPL(A) and an NPPL, but the CAA portal suggests it will only accept Part-FCL licences.

It even rather scarily says on the CAA website that...

Hi everyone,

Please do direct me if we have already discussed this on these forums, so I apologise if I have missed it.

I am looking to start out on my ATPL exams (PPL and night rating in hand) with the hope of completing CPL, MEIR etc eventually...

I hope that this helps to improve the situation.

I went flying earlier today, exactly 30 years to the day since my first trial lesson and was musing over the 2200 odd hours and 40 different types I have flown over the years. Anyway I realised that I had not flown a tailwheel aircraft as PIC since...

Query from several local microlighters (3axis). To obtain NPPL(SSEA) , using NPPL(M), I’ve found a quote from Cap 804, plus talking to a couple of clubs offering this training and the LAA. “Conversion training as necessary”, to include, minimum 1...

Hello all,

Thought I'd try here before resorting to contacting FCL. I have recently completed the training for my MEP rating but not taken the test yet due to the following extract from CAA standards document 3 ( which relates to the CPL skills...

I got my original CAA PPL license in 1998 and went on to do my IMC, multi engine and Instrument Rating. I have had a 20 year break and started again this year.
I passed my PPL test and had the license reissued after proving my English language...

Please forgive me being incredibly thick…

There is a link to an article from the 16th Sep in the right hand banner.

The opening paragraph is

Proposals to simplify licensing and review medical requirements for General Aviation pilots, plus...

Just thought I'd add my current saga with CAA licensing here. I know other people are having lots of issues, but as of today I've now lost my IR privileges and it seems no-one at the CAA can give any answer or forecast of when they will sort it....

I have several potential students who have or are considering NPPL training with Personal Medical Declarations.

Could I ask the experts if the following assumptions are correct, based on my interpretation of ORS4 1486?

1) NPPL(M) going solo in...

Hi all,

Hopefully this is the correct board... I'm interested, at a very high-level, in understanding what hoops one needs to jump through in order to import and use an aircraft from outside the G-reg sphere of influence...

Say an aircraft in the...

I have a current LAPL medical till Dec 2022, In April I suffered few days of vertigo and my GP diagnosed BPPV, off work for a week, and then back to normal :wink: , no medication was prescribed just the Epley manoeuvre to help.

I have searched the...

I am planning on leaving my job next year to become a flying instructor offering a variety of aviation services although my primary service will be freelance instructing.

I am planning on doing a FI(A) rating and CPL in the next 12 months.

I have...

My memory may be playing tricks on me.

Right now, may Part-21 (EASA) aeroplanes be flown within the UK on a valid SSEA Rating?

Hi,

I’m a PPL and have been looking to plan my next steps with more ratings etc.

Earlier this year I was looking on the CAA website at the requirements for the IR(R). However all details / references on any restricted instrument rating (irr or...

Asking all instructors and examiners on this page.

I have an NPPL Microlight and an NPPL SSEA.

I have a Class 2 Medical.

I have about 150 hours in total, of which 66, including 34 PIC, are in non-microlights, and the rest are in microlights.

I...

I hold a CAA PPL(A) licence and appear to have successfully registered on the CAA Customer Portal to make a Pilot Medical Self Declaration. How do I access the form to complete and submit to the CAA?
Mike L

Does a Flight Radio-Telephony Operator's Licence issued in 1998 and including a statement that it shall remain in force "for the holder's lifetime" still, on its own, permit the holder legally to use flight radio-telephony equipment today...

Hi

I SOLI’d my license out some time ago for work. I’m now in the process of getting a UK ATPL again. I sent off (online) all the stuff for issuance of a new CAA class 1 medical about 2 months ago.
How long is it taking them at the moment?

Hi there,

I am about to start training towards a PPL or a LAPL. I know it is possible to upgrade a LAPL to a PPL by going through a slightly more stringent medical and some extra training, but I was wondering how the "downgrade" works....

Went to see my AME today as my medical was running out and I had a heart attack in May and knew I wasn't going to get a new certificate.

My licence is EASA PPL. The doctor said I had two options to continue to fly.

a) Swap my licence for a LAPL,...

My IMC rating expired and was at the back of my license after the CAA reissued after a change of address.
I did some refresher training and passed the flight test but then realised the theory exam also expires when I was filling in the application...

So - situation is I have a JAR PPL(A) that expired in 2012, with an obviously dead SEP rating.

So , I'll be soon taking the LPC for my rating renewal on a dead JAR... so..

Does it make any sense to get my licence changed to a 'EASA" (I know...

Please, have I got this right?
After delving into the Easy Access Rules for Flight Crew Licencing (Part-FCL), Aug 2020, my reading is that differences training is voluntary.
Yet this conflicts with current received wisdom.

GM1 FCL.700 lists the...

ORS4 No.1416 is replaced by ORS4 No.1484

ORS4 No.1418 is replaced by ORS4 No.1485

Both apply until 31st July 2021.

Note that neither extend the validity period of pilot licence holder' class rating(s)!!

Fairly obscure question for FIs out there. Has anyone had the LAPL-only restriction on their FI Certificate removed after completing the CPL theory? I'm in that position now and can't work out the process and evidence that FCL will want and they...

Apologies if this has been covered before.

Am I correct in saying that the bones of the UK regulatory framework is now the following: -

• Standardised Rules of the Air (SERA) as amended by the Aviation Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2021)
• The...

Hi all

I wonder if anybody on this forum can answer my dilemma.

I have a Valid standalone FAA licence and a valid UK Part FCL licence and I wish to fly a German D-Reg aircraft from Germany to the UK.
Can this be done legally

Thanks in advance
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I know that for initial issue, i need a class 2 for a 'full' ppl, but I am currently renewing my old JAR ppl(a) which expired in 2012 into a shiny new no-longer-EASA ppl.

Flying is going great, but I'm having issues with getting a class 2. So the...

I gained my old brown PPL licence back in 1989; I last flew in the 90's! I want to fly again but don't know the regulations etc., or what to do to validate my old PPL. Can anyone help please? Thank you.

Is it still possible to train and qualify as a CRI?
I would love to be able to do some sort of instructing but have no desire to do the CPL theory exams. This would seem like an ideal way forward

I've just done a local pilot's aerobatics training and he is about to apply to CAA to have the Aerobatic Rating added to his licence.

I notice that CAA want his original (as in real, not a certified copy) log-book to be sent with the application...