Recent experience conditions

SPL holders may only exercise their SPL privileges if they comply with the applicable recency requirements and only if their medical certificate, appropriate to the privileges exercised, is valid.

Glider

SPL holders may exercise the privileges conferred by the SPL, excluding TMGs , only if, within the last 24 months prior to the planned flight:

1. have completed at least five hours of flight time on sailplanes as

PIC or flying dual or single under the supervision of an FI(S),

including (which shall include), on sailplanes, excluding TMGs, at least:

(i) 15 launches and (ii) two training flights with an FI(S)

2. have successfully completed a proficiency check with an FE(S) on a sailplane, excluding TMGs; the proficiency check shall be based on the SPL skill test.

TMG

(b) TMGs SPL holders may only exercise their TMG privileges if, within the last 24 months prior to the planned flight:

1. have completed at least 12 hours of flight time as:

PIC or flying in dual or single command under the supervision of an FI(S), including (which shall include), on TMGs, at least:

(i) six hours of flight time ;

(ii) 12 take-offs and landings

and

(iii) a training flight of at least one hour total flight time with an instructor

2. have successfully completed a proficiency check with an examiner; the proficiency check shall be based on the skill test provided for in point SFCL.150(b)(2).

Holders of an SPL who have privileges to fly TMGs, and who also hold a license with privileges to fly TMGs in accordance with the provisions of Annex I (Part FCL) to Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011, are exempted from the obligation to comply with the provisions of point (b).

(d) The performance of dual-control flights, supervised flights, and training flights, as specified in point (a)(1) and point (b)(1), as well as the performance of proficiency checks specified in point (a)(2) and point (b)(2), must be recorded in the pilot’s logbook, signed by the responsible FI(S) in the cases referred to in point (a)(1) and point (b)(1), and by the responsible FE(S) in the cases referred to in point (a)(2) and point (b)(2).

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Flight instructors

(a) The holder of an FI(S) certificate may only exercise the privileges of the certificate if, before the time when those privileges are intended to be exercised:

1. has carried out, in the last three years :

(i) refresher training for instructors at an ATO, a DTO or a competent authority, during which the holder shall have received theoretical knowledge instruction to refresh and update the relevant knowledge for sailplane flight instructors;

and

(ii) when providing practical training as FI(S), at least:

A. 30 hours or B. 60 launches or take-offs and landings and

2. within the last nine years and in accordance with the procedures established for this purpose by the competent authority, has demonstrated the ability to provide sailplane instruction to an FI(S) qualified in accordance with point SFCL.315(a)(7) and nominated by the head of training at an ATO or a DTO.

(b) Flight time as FE(S) during skill tests, proficiency checks, and competency assessments shall be fully credited towards the requirement of point (a)(1)(ii).

(c) If the supervised instructional flight is not completed in a manner considered satisfactory by the FI(S), in accordance with point (a)(2), the holder of the FI(S) certificate shall not exercise the privileges of the FI(S) certificate until successfully passing a competency assessment in accordance with SFCL.345.

(d) To resume exercising the privileges of the FI(S) certificate, a certificate holder who does not meet all the requirements of point (a) must comply with the requirements of point (a)(1)(i) and SFCL.345.

SFCL.345 FI(S) – Competency Assessment

(a) Applicants for an FI(S) certificate must successfully pass a competency assessment to demonstrate to an examiner, qualified in accordance with SFCL.415(c), that they have the ability to train a student pilot to the level required for the issuance of an SPL.

(b) The assessment must include:

demonstration of the competencies described in SFCL.325, during pre-flight and post-flight briefings, as well as during theoretical instruction;
oral theoretical examinations on the ground, pre-flight and post-flight briefings, and in-flight demonstrations;
appropriate exercises to evaluate the instructor’s competencies.

(c) The competency assessment for the initial issuance of an FI(S) certificate shall be conducted on sailplanes, excluding TMGs.