J.A.B The information, clarity you seek is found in AMC/GM Part FCL 740B (1)
Page 247 of the Acceptable Means of Compliance. This issue was raised at a recent examiners conference along with general lack of sim facilities etc and the potential costs to the candidates. Three months expiry without " training penalty" was considered reasonable, although not all of us agreed with this. The subject of how long a " training session" should be is open provided all the required items are covered in accordance with Part FCL ,generally the more complex manoeuvres will be "trained" it is taken as read that a candidate can perform the basics within limits. It used to be possible to book 2 hour sim slots but lack of capacity and downtime favours 4 hour sessions. In principle two guys could get revalidated in 12 hours, allowing for 2 training sims plus the test, but this is still approaching 3K each allowing for the TRI/SFI and TRE.
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