# PPL(A) — Pilot licence minimum hours, age and prerequisites by civil aviation authority

For PPL(A), authority is EASA (European Union); provision is FCL.210.A(b); requirement is total flight time; value is at least 15 hours of flight time on aeroplanes after the issue of the LAPL(A); condition is Applicants for a PPL(A) holding an LAPL(A), recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** EASA (European Union) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** FCL.210.A(b)
- **Requirement:** total flight time _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** at least 15 hours of flight time on aeroplanes after the issue of the LAPL(A) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Condition:** Applicants for a PPL(A) holding an LAPL(A) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Applicants for a PPL(A) holding an LAPL(A) shall have completed at least 15 hours of flight time on aeroplanes after the issue of the LAPL(A), of which at least 10 shall be flight instruction completed in a training course at an ATO

## Source

- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32011R1178

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
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