Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
When it came, it had no IR(R) listed. I queried this with the CAA.
They replied that all UK professional licences had embedded IMC privileges for life.
The only really dangerous aspect of this is that you can have a vanilla UK CPL, with no extra ratings, and be legal to fly IFR en-route and approaches without every having been trained or assessed in them.
G
Under the old UK system it was a prerequisite to hold an IMC rating before one could start the training for the CPL. Instrument flying was also tested on the cpl skills test. Although I can't remember how much and instrument approaches were not tested.
The CAA are wrong one way or another on all UK CPL's having inbuilt IMC privilege for life. I wasn't able to upgrade my BCPL to a UK CPL until something like 2008 as I couldn't hold a class 1 medical. When I was able I was told all UK CPL''s issued after the formation of JAR would be issued without inbuilt IMC privileges. Hence I had a UK CPL issued without inbuilt IMC privileges.
It would now appear that's all been forgotten.