In this case, I found out all the Australian flight instructor had to do, is to endorse the student pilot logbook as well as several DGCA forms that the so called pilot had twenty hours of multi engine time and a number of approaches, as well as “passing” an in-house flight school check (in this case, exactly 20 hours of Seneca time logged, to the minute, and including one hour for the so called in-house flight check).
This particular [co]pilot never studied for and never took, never passed a real IFR written test; never took, never passed a real Multi-Engine check ride and never took, never passed a real Instrument check ride.
this is the case for most Indian students doing their CPL outside India.They just fly 40 hrs instrument 20 on actual and then 20 sim followed by inhouse checks with the instructor of the school fill some forms and presto they come bak to india and get IR endorsed on their DGCA CPL licence.what they learn about Instrument flying nothin zero zilch.
I dont think Indian DGCA has exams for Instrument rating in India itself.they combine everything in the cpl nav exam.