Do uk gliding hours count towards us ones?

Posted by Melodic-Structure243@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 4 comments

Will gliding hours earnt in the uk count towards a ppl-g and atpl?

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capt_Obvious2u@reddit

Don’t forget to log them specifically as “UK Hours” that way the FAA knows that you’re used to flying in the Left side of the airways.

You also want to consider the “Metric Hours” to “US Hours” conversion table (I forget what the conversion rate is nowadays, it used to be 1 Metric Hour = 1.3763 US Hours, but that was years ago. After you do all that math they should transfer right over.

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No-Version-1924@reddit

For PPL, you can credit 10% of your PIC time in gliders up to 10 hours (so if you have 100h PIC on gliders, you can do PPL in 35 hours instead of 45).

For CPL, you can also credit 10h PIC from gliders.

For ATPL - not that it really matters at that point normally - the maximum credit is 30h PIC.

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Jaimebgdb@reddit

Depends, they might count. Check the crediting of previous flight experience rules for the licence/rating you’re looking to apply for. They are usually worded in a way similar to “of the 45 total flight hours required, up to a maximum of 5 hours may have been flown in a non-motor powered airplane, up to 5 hours may have been flown under instruction in an FSTD of these and those characteristics blablabla”

Usually “where” (or under which reg/authority) the hours were flown is not important. Hours are hours regardless. What could matter is the “how”

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