Bertrand, from whom I bought the X-Air, is an ULM instructor. A few days after I’d brought it to Plazac he kindly contacted the French authorities on my behalf to get a definitive statement on what I was required to do in order to acquire a French licence. After a follow-up email to spur them into action (this is France, after all ;-)), this is the message that he received back and passed on to me a few days ago.<\/p>\n
Il n’y a pas de passerelle pour convertir une licence ULM anglaise en licence ULM fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n Si Monsieur …. est titulaire d’une licence de pilote d’a\u00e9ronef, d\u00e9livr\u00e9e par un Etat membre de la Communaut\u00e9 europ\u00e9enne ou un autre \u00c9tat partie \u00e0 l’Espace \u00e9conomique europ\u00e9en, conform\u00e9ment aux normes de la convention relative \u00e0 l’aviation civile internationale, il est dispens\u00e9 de passer l’examen th\u00e9orique commun. (cf. arr\u00eat\u00e9 du 4 mai 2000, relatif aux programmes et r\u00e9gime des examens du brevet et de la licence de pilote d’a\u00e9ronef ultra l\u00e9ger motoris\u00e9.) Bien cordialement,<\/em><\/p>\n This is good news not only for me but for anyone with a UK licence who is thinking about moving to France. What it says is that all you need to do is present yourself to a French ULM instructor and undertake a GST. That’s all, no other formalities, no exams or anything like that. When I compare this to the 100 or so pages of complex gumph that the CAA has produced on the subject of ‘licence allowances’, I find it so refreshing. It’s also great to know that once I’ve done what is asked for, I’ll be free of the tyranny of annual permits and inspections, weighings that the BMAA then uses to beat you over the head with by suggesting that your aircraft that conforms to Section S (and always has done) is over-weight and cannot therefore be flown, the farce of annual medical declarations that many UK doctors refuse to sign despite their being required to do so and having no responsibility for anyway, the mod system that treats you like a numpty and charges you a fortune for the privilege and all of the other paraphernalia tied up with owning and flying a microlight in the UK that allows you to be milked of cash and puts the cost of what could otherwise be a popular leisure activity out of the reach of all but a privileged few.<\/p>\n No wonder there are more microlights and more microlight flyers over on this side of the Channel! We are expecting a bright but cold day tomorrow and Victor, Wim and I are off to the airfield at Castillonnes. Victor hopes to get an hour or so of instruction in and Wim and I will probably just stay on the ground and enjoy the visit. However, I’ll be taking my UK licence and the email I got from Bertrand with me, checking in with an instructor to get some information back from him and maybe making some plans. It could be a big leap forward for me and I’m really looking forward to it \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bertrand, from whom I bought the X-Air, is an ULM instructor. A few days after I’d brought it to Plazac he kindly contacted the French authorities on my behalf to get a definitive statement on what I was required to do in order to acquire a French licence. After a follow-up email to spur them … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Il peut, dans ce cas, passer seulement la partie pratique aupr\u00e8s d’un instructeur ULM fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n