I’m so grateful to Joan Walsh from Saxon Microlights in Essex and who’s also a BMAA Council member, who very kindly helped me out with some advice yesterday. She saw some comments that I’d posted about how frustrated I was about the amount of training I apparently needed given my previous flying experience and how I was annoyed that the exams I took last May were about to ‘expire’ and that I’d then have to take them again.<\/p>\n
She referred me to NPPL\/XC\/REV 08 dated 26 Jan 2009, ALLOWANCES AGAINST TRAINING which is a document on the BMAA web site and said that her interpretation was different to what I had originally been advised. So this morning I spoke to Geoff Weighell, the BMAA Chief Executive, who kindly spared me some of his time. He confirmed that Joan’s interpretation is absolutely correct.<\/p>\n
In fact I do not need to do a full NPPL(M) training course. I didn’t even need to take the exams, but no harm done there because revision of valuable information never hurt anyone, did it. All I needed to do was undergo a period of training (unspecified) by a qualified Microlight Flying Instructor and then pass a GST (General Skills Test) and the GST oral examination. Simple \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n
What’s annoying is that if I’d carried on flying continuously last Summer and not spent the time working on MYRO, I could have done that easily last year and be flying now. But that’s water under the bridge. At least now I know that I don’t have to worry about the ‘time limit’ on the ruddy exams and can aim to take the GST whenever I’m ready to at a time that suits me. And I don’t have to carry on paying to do fairly expensive cross countries in someone else’s aircraft when my own has been there waiting for me for weeks and weeks!<\/p>\n
And that’s excellent news \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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