Originally Posted by PompeyPaul
So is everyone of the opinion it's NOT worth starting one now? I was going to take the written exam next week and then follow up with the flying test some 12 months later. That way I'd get my IMCr until 2014?
Or have I well and truly missed the boat? As far as I could see there was only further guidance due in June / July? Not an outright "to late" ?
I'm doing mine just now, and as far as I understand it, if you get it before the 30th June date, it is then valid on EASA aircraft until 2/3 years in the future - if it does get withdrawn it'll be at that point and that'll be that.
If you get it after the 30th June, you can only add it to a CAA PPL, not an EASA PPL, so you can't use it in an EASA aircraft. Which probably makes it pointless as there aren't many IFR equipped aircraft which aren't EASA.
Worth phoning PLD to check however.