Originally Posted by
Whopity
But, your UK licence doesn't grant the privilege outside the UK -ANO Schedule 7
I suspect that it has never been in anybody's interest to test this.
Flying a G-reg aircraft outside the UK it's clearcut; the IMC is not valid.
Flying on a licence validation: say a C-reg aircraft within Canada with a TC validation, or an N reg aircraft within the USA with a FAA validation, you can certainly interpret the wording of the validation as permitting the use of your UK IMCR whilst using that validation.
Nobody's ever formally answered the question for good, so far as I know, in either country. The risk of asking it formally, regardless of your viewpoint, is that you might get the wrong answer. It's in everybody's interest to leave this a grey area.
G