Originally Posted by Whirlygig
The gamble is, will you get your instrument rating within three years? If not, and you did the ATPL(H) exams, you will have to resit 6 for the IR. Or, do the 9 CPL(H) exams, and sit the IR ones, if and when you need to.
Another thing to consider, as I understand it (and I am happy to be told otherwise), even if you eventually get an IR to bung onto your CPL(H) you can
not be the commander of a multi-crew machine. So if you're thinking about off-shore praps ATPL(H) is the way to go - else you're not going to progress past co-jo (if they are even interested in you)?
More a question than a statement....