Forkie, I Dunno if you only fly privately, but guess that you do. A basic IPC is materially the same as the old CIR so quite rightly should not cost more....yet.
But consider the flight school that delivers the IPC. If they have instructors with multiple approvals, they have many more checks to complete. Not good enough that someone from CASA would come in and check various skills on a cyclical basis - ALL must be checked at whatever the stipulated frequency is. So stand by for your costs to increase when these imposts get passed on.
And pity the poor charter operator who wants a pilot to fly, for example, a King Air 200, a King Air 350 and a Baron. It would be nice to think that the 350 would cover the others, or that the 200 is close enough to a 350 that it doesn't matter and if you can fly a King Air you can probably cope with a Baron - but according to Part 61, it ain't necessarily so.
Yet the same set of rules means a pilot can do a tailwheel endorsement in a Piper Cub, followed the next day with an initial multi in a Duchess and then leap straight in to a Beech 18. Do not try this at home.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 6th May 2015 at 10:00.
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