(1) The Director may only accept, for crediting purposes, flight time entered in a pilot logbook that has been lost or destroyed, if substantiated by means acceptable to the Director.
(2) A person acting as pilot of an aircraft while not complying with any requirement of this Part applicable to that person may not credit that flight time for any purpose.
(3) A student pilot may be credited in full with all solo and dual instruction flight time towards the total flight time requirement for the initial issue of a pilot licence.
(4) A student, attending the integrated course referred to in regulation 61.01.15 (2), may be credited with PIC instrument time when flying under supervision, provided that the entries have been certified by the instructor in the remarks column of the pilot’s logbook. Of these hours a maximum of 50 hours may be credited towards the PIC time required for the issue of a Commercial or ATPL (Aeroplane or Helicopter, as applicable).
(5) The holder of a valid PPL may be credited in full with all solo, dual flight instruction and PIC flight time towards the total flight time experience required for the issue of a rating or the CPL in the same aircraft category.
(6) The holder of a CPL may be credited with the total flight time during which he or she acted as the designated PIC towards the total PIC flight time experience required for a rating or the ATPL in the same aircraft category.
(7) The holder of a Private Pilot or higher Licence, with an appropriate rating, may be credited—
(a) in full with the flight time towards the total flight time required for a higher grade pilot licence when acting as co-pilot at a pilot station of an aircraft certified to be operated with a co-pilot;
(b) with not more than 50 per cent of the co-pilot flight time towards the total time required for a higher grade pilot licence when acting as co-pilot at a pilot station of an aircraft certified for operation by a single pilot but required by Parts 121, 127 or 135 to be operated with a co-pilot.
(8) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(9)
(a) The holder of a national pilot licence or PPL in another category who wishes to obtain a PPL must comply with the requirements as stipulated in regulations 61.03.1 (1) to (3) and technical standard 61.02.5 of Document SA-CATS 61.
(b) A holder of an aeroplane or a helicopter pilot licence, or an equivalent pilot licence in the weight-shift controlled microlight aeroplane, or gyroplane category who wishes to obtain a PPL (A) or PPL (H) may be credited with up to a maximum of 10 hours. The additional 35 hours required must be addressed in a PPL training course which includes—
(i) a minimum of 20 hours dual instruction in the aircraft category for which the licence is sought; and
(ii) a minimum of 15 hours solo flying time, which must include 5 hours cross country flying time and one triangular cross-country flight of at least 150 NM, on which at least one point must not be less than 50 NM from base, including full-stop landings at two different aerodromes away from base: Provided that at least one of the aerodromes from which the aircraft takes off for this flight shall be an aerodrome at which an air traffic services unit is in operation and for which a flight plan shall have been submitted.
(c) The holder of a national pilot licence endorsed with the conventionally controlled microlight aeroplane category who wishes to obtain a PPL(A) may be credited with up to a maximum of 25 hours. The additional 20 hours required must be addressed in a PPL training course which includes—
(i) a minimum of 10 hours dual instruction in an aeroplane; and
(ii) a minimum of 10 hours solo flying time, which must include 5 hours cross country flying time and one triangular cross-country flight of at least 150 NM, on which at least one point must be not less than 50 NM from base, including full- stop landings at two different aerodromes away from base: Provided that at least one of the aerodromes from which the aircraft takes off for this flight shall be an aerodrome at which an air traffic services unit is in operation and for which a flight plan shall have been submitted.
(d) The holder of a national pilot licence endorsed with the light sport aeroplane category who wishes to obtain a PPL(A) may be credited with a maximum of 30 hours. The additional 15 hours required must be addressed in a PPL training course which includes—
(i) a minimum of 10 hours dual instruction in an aeroplane; and
(ii) a minimum of 5 hours solo flying time, which must include one triangular cross-country flight of at least 150 NM, on which at least one point must be not less than 50 NM from base, including full-stop landings at two different aerodromes away from base: Provided that, at least one of the aerodromes from which the aircraft takes off for this flight shall be an aerodrome at which an air traffic services unit is in operation and for which a flight plan shall have been submitted.
(e) A holder of a glider pilot licence endorsed with the glider pilot category who wishes to obtain a PPL(A) may be credited with a maximum of 20 hours. The additional 25 hours required shall be addressed in a PPL training course which shall include—
(i) a minimum of 10 hours dual instruction in an aeroplane; and
(ii) a minimum of 5 hours solo flying time, which must include one triangular cross-country flight of at least 150 NM, on which at least one point must be not less than 50 NM from base, including full-stop landings at two different aerodromes away from base: Provided that, at least one of the aerodromes from which an aircraft takes off for this flight shall be an aerodrome at which an ATSU is in operation and for which a flight plan shall have been filed.
(f) A holder of a national pilot licence endorsed with a touring motor glider pilot category who wishes to obtain a PPL (A) may be credited with a maximum of 30 hours. The additional 15 hours required must be addressed in a PPL training course which includes—
(i) a minimum of 10 hours dual instruction in an aeroplane; and
(ii) a minimum of 5 hours solo flying time, which must include one triangular cross-country flight of at least 150 NM, on which at least one point must be not less than 50 NM from base, including full-stop landings at two different aerodromes away from base: Provided that, at least one of the aerodromes from which an aircraft takes off for this flight shall be an aerodrome at which an ATSU is in operation and for which a flight plan shall have been filed.
(10) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(11) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(12) A pilot manipulating the flight controls of an aircraft under actual or simulated instrument flight conditions solely by reference to instruments and without external reference points may be credited with the instrument flight time thus acquired toward the total instrument flight time experience required for a higher grade pilot licence, an instrument rating and for keeping an instrument rating current.
(13) Dual instruction time must be counted in full towards the total flight time experience required for a higher grade pilot licence.
(14) Time acquired as a pilot on an FSTD approved for the purpose, while under the supervision of an appropriately qualified instructor, may be credited towards—
(a) required flight time experience for the issue of a pilot licence or rating, but only to the extent specified in each case in these regulations;
(b) the instrument flight time experience required in terms of this Part and of Parts 91, 121, 127 or 135 for keeping the instrument rating current; and
(c) the revalidation of the instrument rating.
(15) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(16) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(17) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(18) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(19) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(20) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(21) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(22) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(23) (Not applicable to the PPL Syllabus)
(24) In the case of foreign military-trained pilots who can produce certified proof of flying hours logged, such flying time shall be credited in full towards the issue of a South African civilian pilot licence and ratings.
(25) The holder of an instrument rating on aeroplanes is exempted from the theoretical knowledge training and examination requirements for an instrument rating on helicopters, and vice versa.
(26) A student pilot having undergone all or part of the integrated course, referred to in regulation 61.01.15, who passed the theoretical knowledge examination for the CPL, shall be deemed to have passed the theoretical knowledge examinations prescribed for the issue of the PPL and a Part 96 authorisation issued in terms of Part 62 in the same category.
(27) A student pilot having undergone all or part of the integrated course, referred to in regulation 61.01.16, who passed the theoretical knowledge examination for the ATPL, shall be deemed to have passed the theoretical knowledge examinations prescribed for the issue of the PPL and CPL, and for a Part 96 authorisation issued in terms of Part 62, in the same category.