Solo restrictions

Do you know Dean, for a moment I thought you were suggesting that the rules and regulations surrounding the JAR PPL were confusing and contradictory.

No, of course you are not . . .

I find LASORS as lucid as muddy water, can anyone else locate this in LASORS?

Dean

Do you know Dean, for a moment I thought you were suggesting that the rules and regulations surrounding the JAR PPL were confusing and contradictory.

No, of course you are not . . .

I find LASORS as lucid as muddy water, can anyone else locate this in LASORS?

Dean

Further to what the Mogster said, I thought that you could only land away for the purposes of your qualifying cross country. I seem to remember that was the case when I did my (CAA) PPL 12 years ago but it might have changed with JAR PPL. Basically you can fly solo around your own airfield, do cross countries as long as you don’t land out but an exemption is made when you do your QCC.

With a UK microlight PPL, you can get a restricted license that allows you to fly but only with x distance of the aerodrome. I believe you have to do the NAV part of the course to remove the restriction.

I think it is more a question of money.

That’s understandable. It is also why at £25/hour, in Florida, I crammed in as many hours as possible. It was (then) even cheaper for me to travel from the UK to Florida just to go flying!

I always thought it was a shame that most PPLs I speak to have only ever done three solo cross country trips at the time that they pass. Would their instructor have let them do more if they had asked?

Janie,
I think it is more a question of money. When I was instructing (ok, it was some years ago, and in a different country), I was trying to get people to do just that, fly on their own and get experience in a ‘relatively’ sheltered atmosphere. Problem was, they all wanted to finish with the lowest possible hours. For some reason they all thought that flying would be SO much more inexpensive once the PPL was theirs. So trying to get someone to do something that was not the absolutely minimum neccesary was a pain, and most would not do it.

When I was training in the U.S., as soon as I was qualified to do solo cross countries, I was off and away touring Florida and the museums, packing as much experience in as I could. I managed to clock up 60 hours before taking my test, simply because I was out having fun.

I always thought it was a shame that most PPLs I speak to have only ever done three solo cross country trips at the time that they pass. Would their instructor have let them do more if they had asked?

Jamie, regarding your question, do you not have an instructor you can ask?

Whilst still a student, and indeed right up to the moment the insignificant brown book drops through your letterbox you are permitted to undertake only such flights as are authorised by your instructor.

So if you fancy a trip to a particular aerodrome and you can persuade your instructor that you can do so safely and that it will benefit your training, he can authorise it, you can fly it.

But solo, or with the instructor. Passengers are not permitted as mentioned above.

Moggy

Hi i was wondering what the restrictions are on people who have gone solo but have not got thier liscence. I presume they cannot fly wherever they want and after looking at the CAA website and countless others i cannot find out what i can legally do. Any help would be nice. Thanks

I know you can’t take a passenger up until you have had your licence sent out to you.

After going solo you have to fly the same type of aircraft that you have been learning in.

DME