As Head of Training, if you came to me with a valid ICAO IR and were in current practice I would be happy to allow you to direct sit an LPC.
As I have said before, even stuff that seems black and white has a lot of room for interpretation and as Head of Training it is up to me to take a pragmatic approach to situations that don't fit exactly in the box.
If you weren't writing
anonymously, bose-x, claiming you are a head of training of an
anonymous FTO, that might be useful to some.
Currently, however, all one has to go on is what is written, what is coming.
The EASA doc states
expiry for longer than 1 year but shorter than 7 years:
a minimum of three training sessions;
Will you write publicly, using your CRE/IRE license # and your FTOs full name, that you are willing to skip the "three training sessions" and do somebody's IR renewal in a single flight?
Or you will put in three logbook entries, written up as "training sessions"?
Remember that the resulting logbook entries (or more to the point the lack of them) will be there for all to see, for ever after (or until the pilot moves on to his next logbook) so if somebody decides to have a dig........... this business is positively the last kind of business where I would like to be over somebody's barrel.