Had an interesting chat with CAA FCL Policy 'tother day. One result of this is that those military pilots holding SEP Class Ratings and who wish to revalidate these by experience and dual training flight should note the following:
Any instructional flight or check flight conducted by a military instructor/examiner WHERE REQUIRED DURING THE COURSE OF A PILOT'S SERVICE DUTIES will satisfy the dual flight with an instructor requirement. This will include military IR check flights. However, flights conducted by a military QFI but not required as part of service duties will not be acceptable for this purpose.
Other snippets - GID 29 and GID 30 giving full details of military accreditation both FW (29) and RW (30) will soon be available. Also the application forms will be available on line and the FAQs on the
www.tgda.gov.uk website are being updated.
For those military FW pilots holding UK or JAA/FCL licenses, don't forget that a FW military IR also exempts you from needing to fly an IMC Rating test if you wish to exercise IMC Rating privileges on a SE aeroplane.
[ 08 August 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]