Beagle
You have said this confidently before elsewhere which just confuses things because you dance around the issue.
I understand that your background is incredibly strong in licensing issues - you often appear to have access to knowledge that us mere mortals don't - so please don't take this as disrespect.
I'm reacting to your comment:
Some of the utter nonsense written on this thread makes me wonder quite how many other ill-informed half-truths are circulating around the bazaars these days
Simple, hopefully unambiguous question.
Can you add an IR(r) to a New Part-FCL licence (ie - not during a conversion)? If so - please provide the reference / source / quote that says you can.
We know (and can reference) that you can get it added during conversion from JAR to Part-FCL licence.
We also know that you can add it to a new UK National PPL (which is essentially piggy backing the Part-FCL licence) for evermore, but know that this is Annex II only (it will not let you fly EASA aircraft in IMC).
I asked this in a previous thread without a clear answer from yourself, so please don't treat us like fools.