F3,. .. .You would seem to be in a catch 22 situation, which I can sympathise with. If you have no MCC then prospective employers won't even look at your CV for a multi crew job. I think employers would rather see a completed MCC and lapsed IR than no MCC and current IR. If I were you I'd do the MCC course and put the IR renewal on the back burner (for the moment). My logic is that when applying for any type of multi crew job on a turboprop/jet, the airline who hires you must put you through your IR on that type of aircraft, but you won't get even a sniff of that job if you don't have your MCC completed. I reckon you could do it for about 2500 pounds. The very best of british what ever choice you make !!!!. .. .Ps If you haven't flown Instruments for about a year then I think 1500 pounds would be very optimistic a price. I reckon it would be at least double that and then some to pass the renewal - presumming you haven't done any approach/IR work in an aircraft for a year.. . . . <small>[ 28 March 2002, 19:09: Message edited by: onemorehold ]</small>