Homeguard,
I respect your opinion, even though it may differ from mine on this occasion.
However, at the risk of sending this thread off on a tangent, you said:
IFR/VFR makes no difference. AOC's can contain anything but are related to the specific operations. IFR does not determine how many engines that you must have.
That is not true. JAR-OPS 1.525 states:
(a) An operator shall not operate a single engine aeroplane:
(1) At night; or
(2) In Instrument Meteorological Conditions except under Special Visual Flight Rules.
So, whether or not a
instructional flight is allowed at night might be open for debate, but a
transport flight (to which JAR-OPS 1 applied) would not be allowed at night in a single.
Like I said, a tangent, since the original question related specifically to instructional flights to which JAR-OPS does not apply.
FFF
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