Balliol wrote:Out walking the dog.... lovely evening, now is my dog walking currency on rolling validity or do I need my date signing... am never sure...
Well I wouldn't ask a dog walking instructor.
I think your instructor is trying to explain you are on a 24 month rolling validity
I'd be surprised or he/she isn't good at it.
John, did you get your LAPL from a LAPL course or obtained it from another licence? Your very first sentence in the first post suggests you are confused about legality which could lead to problems if you ever had an incident even if it wasn't your fault. Start with
http://www.higherplane.co.uk/bfr-ground.pdf - the first item in the Medicals, Ratings, Licences sub section nearly halfway down. You don't have a 'revalidation cycle' as such.
This is from my FAQ page which I am refreshing and bringing up to date this week, so I won't put a link.
There's HUGE confusion about LAPLs by pilots who have them! I have even had 4 pilots on the same day approach me for LAPL rating revalidation signatures or concerned they didn't have a 'rating expiry date', which demonstrates they really don't understand what they have 'bought'. Unless you have some extra ratings, like Night, Aeros, etc, you will have quite a few blank pages where ratings and expiry dates would be expected. The LAPL does not work with aircraft ratings in the normal sense. If you look under privileges on page 4 of your licence, you will probably see SEP(land) listed, or maybe TMG, which shows you what sort of aircraft you can fly. However, SEP or TMG will NOT appear with an expiry date anywhere as a rating. There is no specific rating expiry date to work towards, instead YOU are responsible for sorting out your own validity before EVERY flight. Before a flight, you must convince YOURSELF that you have logged the 2 yearly requirements in the 24 months before each flight, on aircraft you are entitled to fly. The requirements are:
12 hours P1 in the 24 months before any flight including 12 take offs and landings AND
One hour's training with an EASA instructor in the 24 months before any flight
Note the 'AND' - which means unlike other schemes, you need 13 hours, of which 12 are p1, and one is pu/t. You check this yourself, you never need go to an examiner for a 'revalidation signature', there is nothing to sign. You are flying on the PRIVILEGES of a LAPL, not an aircraft class or type rating within it, so you have no rating to revalidate. Note 90 day rules still apply for taking passengers.
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
Deconfusion & Preflight Aide-Memoire:
http://tinyurl.com/pilotpalUK GA Twittering not Tw@ering: @irvleeuk