Vortex,
I don't believe having an IR makes any difference at all. The only difference it would make would be to my own night currency requirements... there would be no need for me to have done a night circuit within 90 days to carry pax at night if I had an IR, but that doesn't help me at all in this scenario.
In any case, I don't have an IR. I have now booked myself onto the extremely costly and lengthy course to become a night instructor.
But I haven't been able to arrange that to happen before this student was hoping to fly with me, so I've had to make alternative arrangements for him.
FFF
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