Ok, so I recently nailed the IREX after several years of flying on a Private Instrument rating.
I was gob smacked that RNAV approaches are 'not examinable', and that the emphasis is still very firmly on steam gauge panels - good old OZY doesn't even have an RMI, let alone an HSI. It doesn't have a TSO 145 or 146 GPS either.
Given that (i) NDBs are being actively phased out, (ii) so far as I can tell from what I hear in my headset, RNAVs get far more use than NBD or VOR let downs, and (iii) a suitably 145/146 TSO'd GPS is shortly to be a requirement for IFR flight in Australia, does anyone have any insight into what CASA's examination branch are planning to do to address this rather bizarre anachronism?
The IREX feels like it is at least two decades out of date.
