The content of the 'training flight' is only a recommendation. It can be replaced by your IMC revalidation (so long as it takes an hour), or even by an airline OPC in a simulator. There is actually nothing to stop you taking your instructor over to France for lunch, having lunch and then letting another pilot do another hour on the way home whilst you snore peacefully in the back.
Yes - in typically woolly JAR-FCL fashion they haven't been able to get their $hit in the right sock over this, so if the dual training flight requirement becomes abused then the CAA only have themselves to blame!
[This message has been edited by BEagle (edited 06 June 2001).]