Originally Posted by
bookworm
Still not sure why anyone would do the EIR in these circumstances. If you have an IMC rating and have used it a bit, you probably have the hours requirement for the "full" IR. The proposed TK is the same for the IR and the EIR. The EIR is really intended for someone learning IF from scratch, to enable them to get some utility out of the rating before they've got 40 hours.
If I can, I will. As I'm sure will a lot of other people.
My (and probably other people's) issues are twofold - (a) the cost, and (b) the time to get through the written exams.
If EASA publish a syllabus that cracks these two problems, I'll be there like a shot - along I'm sure with quite a few other people.
If I have to do the current 9 JAR writtens (which in reality means I'd do the 13 ATPLs so that I can fly multi-crew if I ever want to), I have a serious time issue with that. The equivalent of 100hrs study time and only 4 hours worth of exams is really quite appealling.
But, where's the syllabus? As yet, "traffic not seen".
G