@ReleasePT - whilst each member state can be more restrictive, I do not believe they have given you the correct advice so far.

As I mentioned before, the ME-IR just allows you to fly in IFR conditions on any aircraft type that you currently have an active rating on. This rating could be on absolutely anything; MEP or A340 or A320 or B737 or B747 or ..... You get what I am saying here... The 2 ratings are very different, and so their validity will be unrelated.

If you don't want to fly a twin piston aircraft, why would anyone be forced to keep renewing their rating for it?! It makes no sense, and the licensing authorities know this.

To put this in context, it is also a requirement to have a Class One Medical certificate to fly commercially, however the validity of your CPL is 5 years, whereas your medical is 12 monthly.... Using the same logic as your licensing authority have applied thus far, they might aswell tell you that your CPL must expire on the same date as your medical. This is just silly!

Good luck and keep us posted!

I will...

I insisted with them and they gave me a direct email of one Portuguese CAA inspector. I'll wait but I don't have many hope on this to be honest.

But let's see...

I’m still not having a definitive answer from the Portuguese CAA but I decided to take this to another level and I sent an email to every EASA/JAA members.

Besides Switzerland, UK and Greece I can add the Czech Republic, Romania, Estonia, Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg to the list of countries that allow ME IR revalidation on the FNPTII simulator. I'm still waiting from other countries answers but I guess the only country that doesn't allow this, is my country... lol

You can see on this part of the JAR FCL where it states that WE CAN DO IT on the simulator.


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No true.

The ME IR is broken down into ME-IR-SPA and ME-IR-MPA

SPA = single pilot aircraft
MPA = multi pilot aircraft

If you do it in a single pilot aircraft it's only valid in single pilot aircraft and vice versa.