Red Chilli,
Your idea sounds excellent to me, the only bit I would like to change is the
d. Revalidation by test after 13 months.
What might be better is to have a "rolling currency" like the FAA IR. If your logbook contains the relevant requirements [6 approaches, navigation by navaids, holding etc] in the previous 6 months then you're legal to fly IFR in IMC. If not, then you have a further 6 months to get airbourne and do these requirements in VMC with a safety pilot before you can fly in IMC again. If you go over the extended 6 months, then you can become current again with a flight with an authorised instructor / examiner. Should you not fly IFR / IMC for more than 24 months then I think it would be fair to have a revalidation by test.
Also [for obvious reasons
] I'd like to see previous instrument time count towards the course, with maybe a core mandatory course of say 5 hrs or something.....
Cheers
EA