...there being no legal requirement for insurance within the UK.
Me thinks thou doth protest too much,
MC
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...may not grant cover to a pilot wanting to rent...
Whilst there may be no legal requirement for insurance, there may well be a "club/hirer" requirement for insurance, and such insurance may be voided if you haven't been "checked-out", and to be "checked-out" for other than an IR-renewal you can only log P/ut and not P1 or P1s...
So there
