Certificate of Experience - Whats changed!
My last certificate of experience required a flight with an instructor in the last year of the two, subject to the other conditions having been met. It was well publicised the flight was not a test and the "candidate" could not "fail". It was also accepted that the flight could comprise any flight with an instructor, so for example an IMC or IR renewal would qualify, as would instruction towards the grant of a new rating.
Now I gather there has been some changes and wonder whether these have been officially handed down by the CAA, and if so on what legal basis. I gather the flight can no longer be part of other training or other renewal, and must encompass many of the components of a GFT. What’s the story! If this is so, it is yet another cost being imposed on us because for many it was very convenient to combine your IMC or IR renewal with re-validating your C of E.