Originally Posted by
Sierra117
it is but the thing is that the night rating only lasts for as long as you've got a valid CIFR which is 1 year and I've burned through over 6 months of that. It's either do an IPC in 5 months or do a NVFR and then I've got 2 years on that.
...and you can only use the NVFR privileges of your instrument rating if the rating is kept current (i.e. single pilot flight of 1 hour in the last six months with an instrument approach; 3 instrument approaches in the last 90 days; IPC every 12 months). Just because your IPC is valid, doesn't mean you can use the NVFR privileges of it!
Additionally, as part 61 specifies, you can use the night circuits from your instrument rating for the issue of your NVFR, however, you cannot use IFR cross country flights for your NVFR, as the 5 hours cross country has to be done VFR.