Wed Jul 04, 2018 12:37 pm
#1622421
Out today on Skywise:
http://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/A ... crolights/
It was always an nppl thing that you needed a microlight class rating, not just log book differences training, to fly microlights on an nppl if you had an ssea class rating. Then you could revalidate both class ratings on cross counting hours by experience as long as at least one of the 12 hours needed was in each class. The announcement today calls that into question:
"For pilots flying training on a UK national licence, including the NPPL(A), flight experience amassed in microlight aircraft with three axis flight controls can be counted towards the flying experience requirements necessary to maintain the SEP and SSEA Class Ratings."
Now i knew about the Sep in national ppls using 3 axis microlight hours but i think the ssea bit is new isnt it? I will have to read it more carefully when i have a minute as I am not sure if it is saying you can now fly microlights on an ssea rating with differences training and then use all 12 hours in microlight to reval the ssea without 1 in an ssea.
I was also very surprised 2 weeks ago or so to be told 2nd hand via a caa email to someone that an Sep rating in a UK ppl can be renewed by prof check in a microlight! I know about reval by experience, but I would have guessed a rating renewal had to be in the class to be renewed, but apparently not!
http://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/A ... crolights/
It was always an nppl thing that you needed a microlight class rating, not just log book differences training, to fly microlights on an nppl if you had an ssea class rating. Then you could revalidate both class ratings on cross counting hours by experience as long as at least one of the 12 hours needed was in each class. The announcement today calls that into question:
"For pilots flying training on a UK national licence, including the NPPL(A), flight experience amassed in microlight aircraft with three axis flight controls can be counted towards the flying experience requirements necessary to maintain the SEP and SSEA Class Ratings."
Now i knew about the Sep in national ppls using 3 axis microlight hours but i think the ssea bit is new isnt it? I will have to read it more carefully when i have a minute as I am not sure if it is saying you can now fly microlights on an ssea rating with differences training and then use all 12 hours in microlight to reval the ssea without 1 in an ssea.
I was also very surprised 2 weeks ago or so to be told 2nd hand via a caa email to someone that an Sep rating in a UK ppl can be renewed by prof check in a microlight! I know about reval by experience, but I would have guessed a rating renewal had to be in the class to be renewed, but apparently not!
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
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Deconfusion & Preflight Aide-Memoire: http://tinyurl.com/pilotpal
UK GA Twittering not Tw@ering: @irvleeuk