Licensing and Logbooks

REVALIDATING OR RENEWING YOUR SEP RATING

PPLs, CPLs or ATPLs are now issued for 5 years under  JAR rules. The details below are for quick reference only; please refer to the relevant CAA information for the latest requirements.

The licence is only valid if supported by a valid Class Rating or Type Rating, and a current Medical Certificate. The Class or Type Rating is a form in the licence, revalidated or renewed by a Class or Type Rating Examiner's signature.

REVALIDATION is either by experience or proficiency check.

• Experience
  You must have flown 12 hours dual or solo in the 12 months prior to the expiry date. This must include 1 hour flying with an instructor, 6 hours solo, and 12 take offs and landings. The instructor must sign your logbook at the date of that flight.  An examiner can then revalidate you for a further 2 years (from the date of expiry, if signed within 12 months of that date).
• Proficiency Check
  If you have not met these requirements, an examiner must carry out a Proficiency Check of 1 hours duration.  This comprises GH, steep turns, stalls, PFLs and circuits.  If the Proficiency Check is carried out in the 3 months before expiry, the 2 years run from the original date of expiry.
• For both of the above, a form is submitted to the CAA, but no CAA fee is required.

RENEWAL
If you have failed to revalidate by either of the above methods, and you are within 5 years of the expiry date, an examiner must carry out a Skills Test (similar to a Proficiency Check, plus additional training as required).  The examiner will then revalidate you for 2 years from the date of test,Again, a form is sent to the CAA, but no CAA fee is required.

RENEWAL AFTER 5 YEARS FROM EXPIRY DATE
As for a renewal within 5 years, except that a new rating form is issued and signed by the CAA, and a CAA fee  is payable.

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	LASORS 2008.  All the flight crew licensing information otherwise found in JAR-FCL, the UK ANO, AICs and the old CAPs 53/54. Regulations and procedures do change between the annual publishing of LASORS and these updates are notified by AICs and published on www.caa.co.uk/srg/licensing.
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