Originally Posted by
rudestuff
Have you got a reference for that?
That sounds extremely surprising, yes, references please.
Yes, the FAA style oral is well known, but PPL privileges is news to me, and I'd looked into this in some detail. So far as I have seen, an IR is an IR is an IR once issued, the only exception is the need for the ATPL writtens to go from CPL to ATPL, or operate mandatory multi-crew.
G