Forgive my rather shady pseudonym-posting on this topic. I was pretty sure this one had been asked before.
Opinions please: I hold an ME-IR & FI(A), working both commercially and instructing, however have no complex-single 'differences' sign off in my logbook. My reading of LASORS was:
Lasors Section F, General Information, Page 7
Where Differences Training on a particular feature has been completed within the MEP class, these differences may be covered, for SEP aeroplanes, by Familiarisation.
...implying that 'familiarisation training' is sufficient. On the same page, this was defined as follows:
Familiarisation Training merely requires the aquisition of additional knowledge, relevant to the new type or variant. This may be achieved with the assistance of an instructor, another pilot experienced on type, or by self study.
I have been flying complex singles (wobbly props/retractable) AND instructing on them on this basis of having completed 'familiarisation training'.
Now I would say that I
am legal, but some of the reading above disturbs me...is there a chance I am operating outside of the straight-and-
Arrow? Anybody else have views on this?