The fee
An administration fee is payable for verifying your licensing privileges with the issuing authority of your non-UK Part-FCL licence, in addition to the relevant licence/certificate fee.
Please see our Licensing fees and costs (full details are available in Scheme of Charges (Personnel Licensing)).
An additional fee applies if you would like your documents returned by secure courier.
Making sure your documents are safely returned.
Processing time
Once the CAA is in receipt of your application, this will be added to the workflow and processed in strict date order. Due to the nature of this application process, in conjunction with the two-year recognition period, it will not be bound by our standard SLA.
Following the initial assessment, a request will be sent to your EU NAA for verification of the EASA Part-FCL licence, and for confirmation of any current enforcement or revocation action.
Only once we are in receipt of the verification, and your UK medical has been issued, a UK Part-FCL will be issued.
As this application requires that your EASA licence details are verified by the EU NAA that issued your non-UK Part-FCL licence, we are reliant on the cooperation and turnaround of the other authority.
Conversion of National and Restricted Ratings
The UK CAA is unable to convert any National Ratings held on Non-UK EU Part-FCL Licences. Additionally, we cannot issue ratings that are restricted to specific countries or airlines, and these will not be endorsed on the UK Part-FCL.
What will be issued on the UK Part-FCL Licence
All privileges endorsed on your licence at the time of transfer from the UK will be endorsed onto the UK Part-FCL licence. Any additional privileges from the EU Part-FCL will also be endorsed onto the UK Part-FCL, excluding any National or Restricted Ratings. Any valid ratings will be annotated on the certificate of revalidation, with any expired ratings being removed to the back of the licence.
File size limit
Please note that there is currently a 50Mb size limit for files uploaded to our forms.
If your attachments exceed 50Mb, you should send all supporting documentation to fclweb@caa.co.uk quoting your application number.
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact our licensing team
Email fclweb@caa.co.uk (preferred)
Phone 0330 022 1972 (Mon - Fri 08:30 - 16:30)