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By Cookie
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#1876739
Perhaps time for the BMAA to introduce a coaching scheme then and get people qualified as CRIs?


Whilst a CRI certificate can be added to a UK Part-FCL licence and national ICAO-compliant licence valid for instructing on SEP (therefore microlights with differences training) and/or TMG, an amendment to the ANO would be required in order to permit addition of a CRI certificate to a NPPL valid for the associated classes.

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Cookie wrote:... an amendment to the ANO would be required in order to permit addition of a CRI certificate to a NPPL valid for the associated classes.
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The CAA doesn't seem to have much trouble creating exemptions prior to amending the ANO when they have the will.
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It's taken a while but the subject's found its way into the BMAA's mag, Microlight Flying. It seems they consider the new requirements perfectly reasonable.

So it seems we have to get instructor sign off, even if only to confirm we've read the manual. Of course, the instructor in question must also have read the manual - and be signed off too if they read it after the August ANO change.

Microlighting RIP?
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And I have to say I found Hughes's reply to a letter asking about this unhelpful and dismissive almost to the point of rudeness.
This is indeed the end of the founding ethos of microlight flying.
It's worth recalling that the originally intended name of the BMAA was 'british minimum aircraft association' - nothing minimum about it now.
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