Well if this is the case its a shame and makes the regulations yet more complicated and will only result in yet more people flying illegally.
I thought the change would make things a lot better for the smaller out of the way airfields where getting hold of an examiner isn't easy.
I also can't see the logic why they didn't make the privileges exactly the same as that for examiners.
So when a licence holder who has meant the experience requirements and has alreaxy done the one hour dual goes to see a local FI for a signature he is told he can't do it. But if he then goes and does a further hour dual then the FI can sign it.
I think this is yet another regulatory failure.
People don't even know the difference between revaldatiom and renewal and this would now appear to be another layer of regulation that people won't understand.
Make the instructors privledges to revalidate by experience the same as examiners