Paragraph Flight instructor certificate (helicopter)
A flight instructor certificate (helicopter) entitles the holder of the licence to give instruction in flying helicopters of such types as may be specified in the certificate for that purpose subject to the restrictions specified below.
Restrictions – restricted period
Until the holder of a flight instructor certificate (helicopter) has completed at least 100 hours flight instruction and, in addition, has supervised at least F125 student pilot solo flight exercises, the privileges of the certificate are restricted.
The restrictions will be removed from the certificate when the requirements specified in paragraph (1) have been met F2... .
Restrictions – restricted privileges
The privileges are restricted to carrying out under the supervision of the holder of a flight instructor certificate (helicopter) approved for this purpose—
flight instruction for—
the issue of a F3Light Aircraft Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters) and a United Kingdom Private Pilot's Licence (Helicopters); and
type ratings for single-engine helicopters,
other than for the approval of first solo flights by day or by night and first solo cross country flights by day or by night; and
night flying instruction, provided the holder has undergone such training as the CAA may require.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 substituted (14.12.2017) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1112), arts. 1, 45(b)(i)
- F2
Words in Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 omitted (14.12.2017) by virtue of The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1112), arts. 1, 45(b)(ii)
- F3
Words in Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 s. 3 substituted (1.10.2025) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/850), arts. 1(2), 16(3)(a)(iii)(aa)