Originally Posted by
Reverserbucket
Nonsense - either those schools don't know what their talking about, not interested or have no experience of your situation. An appraisal and training as required is all that is necessary in the case of a lapsed IR >7years. You will have to pass the IR(A) Theoretical Knowledge exams (credit for HPL and Met if you held/hold a CPL) but you certainly don't have to do the whole course again. I would suggest speaking to those schools who are not quoting for the whole course again.
Thanks for the clarification. I have a CPL and am redoing the ATPL theory so i will continue after with the CBIR and only deal with the schools that seem to understand the regs!