Dont drink to little hey.
As you know on completion of your FI rating you will be pretty much the same as I was as an AFI. Once youve done your 25 supervised solo's and submitted your signed form you will become an equivelant of a QFI but to then do IMC rating training my understanding is you need to undertake the old 7 hour UK QFI course and test with FIE on top of that. I guess if you have IR now you could do the course combined with FI/R now. Hope that is correct.
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