Pilot's license; application for the issue of a further authorization

You can apply for an extension of the privileges of a private pilot's license, a glider pilot's license and a balloon pilot's license.

Antrag auf Erteilung / Erweiterung der Kunstflugberechtigung gemäß FCL.800 VO(EU) Nr. 1178/2011

This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
Antrag auf Erteilung / Erweiterung einer Berechtigung zum Schleppen von Segelflugzeugen gemäß FCL.805 VO(EU) Nr. 1178/2011

This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
Erwerb der Nachtflugberechtigung gemäß FCL.810 VO(EU) Nr. 1178/2011, SFCL.205 VO(EU) 2018/1976 oder BFCL.205 VO(EU) 2018/395

This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
Antrag auf Erteilung der Berechtigung zur gewerblichen Tätigkeit oder Tätigkeit gegen Vergütung gemäß BFCL.215 VO(EU) 2018/395 für Inhaber einer Ballonpilotenlizenz (BPL)

This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
Pilotenlizenz Beantragung Neuerstellung - Erklärung

This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.

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The rights of a private pilot license can be extended to the authorization to perform aerobatics, the authorization to tow gliders and banners, the night flight authorization, the mountain flight authorization, the authorization of various types of take-off for holders of a glider pilot license and the authorization for commercial activity or activity against remuneration of a balloon pilot.

If you wish to acquire the aerobatic license, you must have a
- Light aircraft pilot license (airplane) or
- private pilot license (aircraft).
If you wish to acquire the authorization to tow gliders and banners, you must have a
- Light aircraft pilot license (aircraft),
- private pilot license (aircraft) or
- glider pilot license (SPL with rights for TMG).
If you wish to acquire the night flying authorization, you must have a
- Light aircraft pilot license (aircraft),
- Private pilot license (aircraft),
- Private pilot license (helicopter),
- glider pilot license (SPL with rights for TMG) or
- balloon pilot license.
If you wish to apply for authorization for other types of take-off in a glider license, you must have a glider pilot license.
If you wish to acquire the authorization for commercial activity or activity for remuneration for holders of balloon pilot licenses, you must
- have reached the age of 18,
- have completed at least the following flight experience after initial issue of the license: BPL holder: 50 flying hours and 50 take-offs and landings as PIC on balloons,
- the rights for the balloon class in which the rights for commercial flight operations are to be exercised must be available,
- have passed the practical examination with an examiner in the balloon class in which the qualification for commercial balloon flight operations must be demonstrated.

Original licence or clearly legible copies of front and back cover
Copy of the valid medical certificate
in the case of an application for authorisation to engage in commercial activity or to engage in activity for remuneration: evidence of examination of competence
in the case of an application for the issue/extension of a mountain rating: when conducting the practical examination with the holder of a foreign examiner's certificate, a copy of the foreign licence and examiner's certificate of the examiner

The form must be submitted to the relevant aviation authority together with the documents listed there. Once the documents have been checked, the requested entry is made in the private pilot license.