IR/Exam Discrimination: Fighting the CAA?

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Mutual Recognition

Smokin

Guess you’re referring to Proflight’s course in Sweden: they use an SE Bell I think. A friend of mine did their IR course recently, had no trouble getting it recognised by the Norwegian authorities and now works for one of the majors. It can be that straightforward

One problem area seems to be where different countries have implemented different amendments to JAR-FCL 2. So an overseas syllabus and its requirements can be non-aligned with the requirements of the licence-issuing authority. Here it’s perhaps important to make sure an overseas IR provider is experienced in dealing with the licence holder’s authority and aware of any problem areas.


Helimutt

Some countries allow IMC certification of SE aircraft, so it is possible to get IMC training during a SE IR(H) course

You are right, self-funded conversion to ME is still going to be expensive in practice, but if done as part of TR training by a major operator, quite straightforward.