I actually have decided where we differ on the hours required and in actual fact we are both right, to an extent. The cpl before the IR states that you have to have 10 hours of intrument time, and therefore you can deduct 5 hours from your multi engine ir time, giving you a 25h cpl and 50h IR if you do the ir first then its a 55h ir then a 15h cpl. With regards to sim time i am agreeing with you as you have read lasors about it and i haven't, however i was only stating that i had previously thought that it was a minimum time in the a/c not a max time in the sim, i was wrong. I did 25 in the sim and 25 in the a/c and got a first time pass so i was unaware of any max sim time, but i was told that i HAD to do at least 15 in the a/c, in all honesty I would say that 25h in the a/c should be the min, coz at 15h I was still all over the place