# BPL — Pilot licence minimum hours, age and prerequisites by civil aviation authority

For BPL, authority is EASA (European Union); provision is FCL.210.B(a); requirement is total flight time; value is at least 16 hours of flight instruction; condition is on balloons in the same class and group, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** EASA (European Union) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** FCL.210.B(a)
- **Requirement:** total flight time _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** at least 16 hours of flight instruction _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Condition:** on balloons in the same class and group _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Applicants for a BPL shall have completed on balloons in the same class and group at least 16 hours of flight instruction, 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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