I understood that it is the minima, for an IR rated pilot PLUS 200ft, with an absolute minimum of 500ft for a precison approach & 600ft for a non-precision approach. This is for an IMC rated pilot in current practice, which is defined as having done an instrument approach in the last 28 days.
As a semi-competant IMC rated pilot, (who does take regular practice of IF with an instructor, when rusty), I would not go below the above limits on my own.
BUT, as Send Clowns, asks, if this just the recommended limits or the LEGAL limits for IMC rated pilots? In all the CAA paperwork that I have seen, it is not really clear.
PS. Just had a look in LASORS 2002, but that just seems to say that for an IMC test or revalidation, the candidate must make a let down & approach to "Decision Height", but does not define DH, so do we assume that the IMC test is down to the SAME minima as the IR test? Now I really am confused
Mind you, the examiner who did my last IMC revalidation (in a twin) made me do a procedure ILS, assymetric & down to IR minima, but I assumed that is just 'cos he is sadist, who likes making me work hard
