I have just renewed my ME/IR after it had lapsed for 6 months.
Arranged a day with one of the civvie examiners(£170 per day) from Babcock-HCS, the company who has the military training contract at RAF Barkston Heath. He can arrange a twin (seneca or duchess). I did mine in the Duchess based at Peterborough Conington(£ 175/hr).
Did an If training flight in the morning, airways- cranfield-single eng NDB holds-ILS-1 eng NDB app- circle to land-GH-limited panel-
Up's-circuits. Did a debrief, then did the same thing for the test only this time don't screw up. All in all I did 4 hrs flying and was quite surprised how most of it came back to me, although my scan wasn't worth a damn for the first hour. Sting in the tail was the £ 130 approach/landing charges.
After it all I was quite happy with the cost as it could have been a lot worse and I've got another 4 twin hours
