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

For PPL(As), authority is EASA (European Union); provision is FCL.210.As(a); requirement is total flight time; value is at least 35 hours of flight instruction in airships; condition is 5 of which may have been completed in an FSTD, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** EASA (European Union) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** FCL.210.As(a)
- **Requirement:** total flight time _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** at least 35 hours of flight instruction in airships _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Condition:** 5 of which may have been completed in an FSTD _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Applicants for a PPL(As) shall have completed at least 35 hours of flight instruction in airships, 5 of which may have been completed in an FSTD, including at least

## 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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