Originally Posted by
redsnail
The flying. If you hold an ICAO IR then you need to do a minimum of 15 hours of which some can be done in a synthetic trainer. Budget about 3000GBP at least! Remember to add in some for the CAA examiner. That's another couple hundred pounds.
Now you have a nice shiny blue book CPL/IR with ATPL credits. You now have ~ 7 years to "unfreeze" it.
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So am I interpreting this correctly? : If I already hold an Aus CPL/IR, for the flying componant I do the min 15 hours IR stuff & test, and I get the CPL as well without a CPL flight test?