Night and the IR
IO540 makes a valid point. A holder of the IR may exercise that privilege at night although maybe not current at night as others have to be.
Please accept my apologise for the previous half completed post which was not intended. Below is my completed posting.
Who can explain the following, that is d(ii) from the UK ANO 1995?
(d) He shall not fly as pilot in command of such an aeroplane at night unless:
(i) his licence includes a night rating (aeroplanes); and
(ii) his licence includes an instrument rating (aeroplanes) or he has within the immediately preceding 13 months carried out as pilot in command not less than 5 take-offs and 5 landings at a time when the depression of the centre of the sun was not less than 12° below the horizon.
Which was later amended to the following ANO 2005
Private Pilot's Licence (Aeroplanes)
Minimum age—17 years
No maximum period of validity
Privileges:
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the holder of a Private Pilot's Licence (Aeroplanes) shall be entitled to fly as pilot in command or co-pilot of an aeroplane of any of the types or classes specified or otherwise falling within an aircraft rating included in the licence.
(2) He shall not—
(d) fly as pilot in command of such an aeroplane at night unless his licence includes a night rating (aeroplanes) or a night qualification (aeroplane);
(g) fly as pilot in command of such an aeroplane carrying passengers unless within the preceding 90 days he has made at least three take-offs and three landings as the sole manipulator of the controls of an aeroplane of the same type or class and if such a flight is to be carried out at night and his licence does not include an instrument rating (aeroplane) at least one of those take-offs and landings shall have been at night.
What skills provided in the IR training and testing give the skills to make a landing at night?
While it is not hard to see that at an international airport with state of the art lighting guidance it will be no less odeous to landing in weather minima, it should be noted that landing at a small licenced airfied with the minima edge and Wing Bar lights perhaps aided by APAPI is not the same at all.