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If you fly an R22, then you need an LPC every year, if you fly 737 you need an LPC every year and an OPC every 6 months. MEP, every year. Why the difference with SEP? You can kill yourself just as easily in an SEP as in anything else.
I understand some of what you are saying,
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I have been used to being trained, converted, assessed, tested on a regular basis for over 30 years as an ATPL/IR - indeed I have also done some of the training, assessing and testing of colleagues during that time - and there is some logic in what you are saying.
However, the legislation for PPL revalidation under JAR-FCL does not require a test or an assessment - it requires a "Training Flight". As there is no assessment required, therefore there can be no PASS / FAIL. Clearly, as an instructor, you may wish to mention certain aspects of a licence holder's flying which are either excellent and beyond reproach or, alternatively, suggest some practice or improvement, but the legislation does not require you to do so.
If a PPL holder wants to practice or demonstrate a PFL, EFATO, stall, steep turn or whatever to the instructor on the "Training Flight", then of course he/she can do so and a good instructor will be happy to provide feedback - all pilots can benefit from this from time to time - nevertheless this is not a legal revalidation requirement.
It probably should be argued that there is a gap in the legislation here, in that JAR-FCL does not make clear the intention or purpose of the "Training Flight" in PPL revalidation. However, until or unless it does, I would suggest that you need to be very careful about your attitude as an instructor to this "Training Flight" requirement. There is obviously a Duty of Care upon a FI to seek to ensure that satisfactory standards are achieved wherever possible. However there is a fine line between competent professional guidance and seeking to impose penalties or restrictions that are beyond your responsibilities.
As a FI, you are not there to "police" and you should not try to "enforce". You, like everyone else, remain both responsible to and subservient to the legislation and not independent of it.
JD
