Flight training in Germany

In Germany pilot licensing follows the EU aircrew rules (Part-FCL), with EASA setting the common rules and German authorities acting as competent authorities under the national personnel licensing ordinance (LuftPersV). The competent body for a given licence is stated on the licence itself, and responsibility is divided between the federal LBA and the state (Land) aviation authorities. Approved and declared training organisations fall partly to the LBA and partly to the state authorities, so a prospective student should check which authority supervises a given school. The LBA runs the theory examinations and recognises language-testing bodies.

Source: lba.de/DE/Luftfahrtpersonal/Lizenzierung/Lizen

• Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA)Federal aviation authority: its Referat L4 handles licensing for applicants in its area of responsibility, Referat L1 handles approved and national training organisations within its remit, and it runs theory examinations, examiners and language-test oversight.
• Landesluftfahrtbehörden (state aviation authorities)State aviation authorities are responsible for the approved (ATO) and declared (DTO) training organisations in their remit; the responsible licensing authority is the one entered on the licence.

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• Training at an ATO or DTO

  Training organisations are approved (ATO) or declared (DTO); the responsible authority is either the LBA or the state authority.

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• Licensing by the competent authority

  Applications for changes to a licence are processed only by the authority entered on it.

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Names and privileges are local to Germany. Similar names in other countries are not interchangeable.

A regulatory minimum is a legal floor for the qualification. It is not the number of hours most students need, and not a guarantee of cost or completion time.

ATO

Approved Training Organisation, approved by the LBA or a state aviation authority depending on remit.

DTO

Declared Training Organisation, supervised by the state aviation authority.

NTO

Nationale Ausbildungsorganisation: a national training organisation category listed by the LBA.

LuftPersV

The German ordinance on aviation personnel referenced by the LBA for competence and language requirements.

The LBA has an aviation medicine section for aeromedical matters under EU Part-MED; a valid medical certificate is a precondition for renewing certain ratings. Official medical information

ICAO language standards were implemented in German law in 2008; a language test can be combined with a radiotelephony certificate, and the LBA recognises language-testing bodies.

Languages of instruction among researched schools: German, English.

Non-EU nationals should check German visa and residence rules with the German authorities and the school; no flight-training-specific official page was retrieved for this review and nothing here promises eligibility.

• Luftfahrt-Bundesamt

Training approval does not establish immigration permission or international-student eligibility. Verify current rules with the official sources above.

The LBA licensing page mentions licensing of FAA licences under the U.S.-EU TIP-L arrangement and has pages for verification of licences; consult the LBA licensing forms for third-country conversions.

• LBA: Lizenzierung
• LBA: Formulare