Originally Posted by JimL
BaronG,
The reason you cannot quote chapter and verse is that you are simply wrong.
Thank you for being gracious enough to correct me.... but wait, I'm confused by the next bit.
Originally Posted by JimL
Any Part 27 helicopter can be certificated for operation under instrument flight rules (certificated for flight in IMC) by complying with Appendix B to FAR/CS 27. There is no requirement to have two engines; in fact a number of civil singles are already certificated for flight in IMC.
This is for the FAA? - this thread is about JAA (UK specifically)....
Originally Posted by JimL
JAR-OPS 3 prohibits SEIMC for Commercial Air Transport (CAT) as did ICAO Annex 6 (by inference) before the recent amendment (not yet published). SEIMC is now covered by the revised Annex 6 but is unlikely (in my view) to result in a change of regulations world-wide. The amendment calls for additional equipment/procedures mainly required to mitigate the risk of flying in cloud (mostly equipment failure and subsequent loss of control) for the purpose of CAT.
Ahh so this is the relevant part.
So under JAA, IFR = twin engine. So the question is, at some point in the dim/distant pass was SE IFR(H) legal in the UK?
BG