UPRT INSTRUCTOR (UPRT-I)

Before commencing the UPRT-I course at SKY academy, the applicant needs to have completed a UPRT.745.A within the last preceding 24 months. If this isn’t the case, the course will start with a FCL.745.A refresher.

In general, an applicant which is well-prepared in advance and possesses developed ‘stick & rudder’ skills needs no more than approximately 2-3 days of training:

• 4 flights of 45 minutes;
• 8 hours of groundschool and briefings.

(EASA exerpt) General prerequisites and requirements for instructors

(e) Additional requirements for instructing in a training course in accordance with FCL.745.A:

• (1) In addition to (b), before acting as instructors for a training course according to FCL.745.A,
  holders of an instructor certificate shall:
  • (i) have at least 500 hours of flight time as pilots of airplanes,
    including 200 hours of flight instruction;
  • (ii) after complying with the experience requirements in point (e)(1)(i), have completed a UPRT instructor training course at an ATO, during which the competence of applicants shall have been assessed continuously; and
  • (iii) upon completion of the course, have been issued with a certificate of course completion by the ATO, whose Head of Training (HT) shall have entered the privileges specified in point (e)(1) in the logbook of the applicants.
• (2) The privileges referred to in point (e)(1) shall only be exercised if instructors have, during the last year, received refresher training at an ATO during which the competence required to instruct on a course in accordance with point FCL.745.A is assessed to the satisfaction of the HT.