IRritating
It is established that the actual Instructing qualifications for the teaching of applied instruments are the same for the IR or IMCr instructor and they need only to have completed the same course. This fact is specifically stated within LASORS (see earlier quote from LASORS). Additionally, a long standing principle is that you do not teach on a course for anything for which you do not have the qualification. Holding an IR to be able to teach on an IR course satisfies that principle.
Some argue that the training given by an IMCr Instructor is sub ICAO and shouldn't count toward an an ICAO recognised IR. I should remind everyone that until the establishment of JAA the UK gave credit for 10 hours IMCr training toward the fully recognised ICAO UK IR.
What is it that some think is actually different between the two instructors, when teaching the IMCr as far as it goes, and therefore believe the training should not be credited toward an ICAO IR?