I received my part 61 licence after doing an instrument renewal. And I felt so much safer after they sent me my part 61 licence sans CIR
Yeah that worked well.
I then had to explain all this to the poor person on the end of the phone that I actually did have a CIR and it was their error it was missing. Funny enough it did not take long to fix but I wonder what would happen if I had just stuffed it in my licence folder and did not decipher all the new codes for everything to discover the error, and then got ramped after popping out the soup at the minima.
Would have been fun and games then.
But I am so much safer as a result.