Private and recreational flying · Private-pilot course
Formation Pilote Privé Hélicoptère (PPL-H)
Rotor Club Aixois · Aix-en-Provence Les Milles, Les Milles (Aix-en-Provence) · France
At a glance
- Training category
- Private and recreational flying
- Aircraft category
- Helicopter
- Prepares for
- Licence de pilote privé hélicoptère PPL(H)
- Jurisdiction
- France
- Authority
- DGAC
- Training framework
- Declared training organisation (DTO), national authority
- Training base
- Aix-en-Provence Les Milles (LFMA)
- Delivery
- In person
- Schedule
- Schedule not stated
What it teaches and what completion provides
- Teaches
- Helicopter private pilot training from basic handling to navigation and cross-country, tracked with an individual progress booklet; theory is prepared in parallel.
- Completion provides
- Training toward the licence; theory (independent subject tests, 75 percent pass mark) and final practical exam are taken with the authority.
- Still required
- Theory tests and final practical exam.
- Approval scope
- The source does not say how this course relates to the school's approval.
A course completion certificate is not necessarily a pilot licence or rating. The licensing authority issues licences and ratings after its own requirements are met.
Entry requirements
- Minimum age
- 17 (as published)
- Prerequisites
- Not published
- Prior qualifications
- Not published
- Required experience
- Not published
- Language requirements
- Not published
- Medical
- Certificat médical de classe 2 délivré par un médecin agréé DGAC
Only an official aeromedical assessment can establish medical fitness. This site does not decide eligibility.
Duration and hours
These figures answer different questions and must not be read as one another. Weather, aircraft availability, student progress, examinations and scheduling all affect real completion time.
Regulatory minimum
45 h flight time
Club page: regulatory minimum of 45 hours of flight instruction; 10 percent reduction of PIC hours (up to 6 h) for glider or aeroplane licence holders.
Advertised package hours
Not published.
School-reported typical completion
Not published. No typical completion time is estimated here.
- Calendar duration
- Not published
- Intake / booking
- Not published
Published prices
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- Deposit and cancellation
- Not published
Authority records for this school and base
Stated by the schoolDGACDeclared training organisation (DTO), national authorityDeclaration
Scope: PPL-H training, as stated on the club page
Sources conflictDGACApproved training organisation (ATO), national authorityApproval
Reference: FR.ATO.0244
Scope: The 2021 register lists PPL(H) theory and practice plus R44, HU269 and Bell 206 type courses under an ATO number (the club page mentions an ATO approval in 2016 but now calls itself a DTO); the current regime is unclear (DGAC register PDF dated 1 July 2021; scope may have changed. Matched by organisation name and website.)
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