Might pick up in a couple of years in Europe.
Some people flying outside of EASA land on other licenses and validate IR's on those licenses, left their European licenses lapse and would have been caught out with the IR rules. Very unfair, you would have thought someone flying for major airlines would be able to transfer their IR ratings under ICAO or something onto their EASA. I suspect this might be challenged as their will be a large number affecting in Middle / Far East etc.
This and the requirements for "training as required" for renewing lapsed ratings via ATO's will mean more money to spend before being able to take the test. This might one day help towards creating a pilot shortage in a few years time. Or one would hope....
Last edited by turbine100; 9th Dec 2012 at 19:33.