MPL after lapsed PPL - Help please

[Canz]

I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life about 6 yrs ago when I let my PPL lapse........

Now, my son is solo at age 16 with his PPL, and daddy wants to fly again! What do I need to get an MPL, apart from a medical and SPL?

Do I have to write all the exams again?
Are MPL exams also of the online-type as PPL?
I have about 120hrs on type certified a/c and a few trike hours. Also, my restricted radio lisence is valid.

Please help!

Many thanx!

[Wargames]

Hi Canz,

That was a big mistake!!

Lucky for you, it can be rectified.

Airlaw states that if your PPL lapsed for more than 5 years, you have to do the whole course again(including all exams), so then MPL, as I see it, would not be just a conversion.

You need to do MPL from scratch, but it will be easier because your experience will help.

On exams, go to flight school, and they will be able to tell you.

Good luck!!

[Canz]

Hi Canz,

That was a big mistake!!

Lucky for you, it can be rectified.

Airlaw states that if your PPL lapsed for more than 5 years, you have to do the whole course again(including all exams), so then MPL, as I see it, would not be just a conversion.

You need to do MPL from scratch, but it will be easier because your experience will help.

On exams, go to flight school, and they will be able to tell you.

Good luck!!

Damn! I thought going the MPL way, I would not have to do those exams again.......might as well go the PPL way then. Unless the MPL exams are not the CAA online type, as they are a schlep now. At 43, studying isn't easy any more!

Thanx anyway!

[Wargames]

Currently MPL exams is not caa online exams. They want to make them RAASA online exams, but have no idea when that will be effected.

Stop worrying over the admin, just start to fly. That will be the carrot in front of your nose!!

[Morph]

I emailed you

[lefssa]

Are you going to do a Trike MPL or 3 axis controlled Microlight or Light sport? What aircraft do you intend flying once you have your license?

[Canz]

Are you going to do a Trike MPL or 3 axis controlled Microlight or Light sport? What aircraft do you intend flying once you have your license?

Anything but a trike. Been there, done that, got the battlescars to prove it.......

[Canz]

I emailed you

Thanx for that, it was a great help!

[lefssa]

You never loose your hours that have been flown. To get your 3 axis light sport licence you must just get current, do a flight test and then because it has been so long since you had a license you must write the exams. The exams are not difficult. They are not CAA exams but RAASA exams. As a guess it will take not more that 10 hours but it will obviosly depend on your instructor and the plane you fly.

Good luck