I believe the privileges of an instructor cannot just allow instruction towards Licence/Rating issue,
renewal or revalidation - they must permit instruction of any elements of a Licence/Rating syllabus
to anybody at any time.
I have no idea what this means or what point it is attempting to make.
My apologies, let me try another example:
A twin needs a twenty minute positioning flight. The pilot happens to be
an MEP CRI and they take along another club member (PPL SEP Holder) for
company.
The PPL holder cannot believe their luck when they are put in the LHS and
the pilot lets them do most of the flying whilst going in to "instructor" mode.
The flight was definiteley
not for Rating Renewal or Revalidation as no
Rating is held. It is also
not for Rating issue as it wasn't flown under
the auspices of an MEP ATO.
Can the CRI tell the other pilot to record the flight as 20min MEP PUT?
I think YES, because the CRI was Instructing according to the MEP syllabus.
The point I was making is that it is irrelevant whether the "student" has
a valid Night Rating or not as any VFR Instruction at night would be
according to the Night Rating syllabus and, therefore, any Instructor would
need the privilege to Instruct for the Night Rating.
But the privileges at FCL.905.IRI do not specifically include instruction at night
They do not specifically exclude it therefore any instruction at night would be allowed
unless there is an additional requirement from another privilege's syllabus.
In this case LAPL/PPL VFR instruction at night is a privilege listed in the
Night Rating requirement.
Are you saying that an IRI may, for example, teach a non-precision approach at night up
until the point that the aircraft reaches MDA and/or IFR is cancelled but may not then
teach the subsequent circle to land under VFR?
To an LAPL/PPL holder Yes. (NB: CPL syllabus only requires visual landing, not VFR)
Don't cancel IFR.
There is no difference, that I can see, to flying a visual circle to land IFR as there is VFR.
Once again, the privileges at FCL.905.TRI do not specifically include instruction at night
As per my answer above re IRI