Speaking from experience, it appears that you can, as I did, do the rating and test in 3 hours if the TRTO has CAA approval to do so.

I had an R22 rating on my JAA CPL(H) and needed an R44 rating and ended up doing did 1.9 hours refresher training ( I had a current,valid R44 rating on a overseas CPL) and a 1.1 hour skills test.

Ewe Turn,

that is because you already had a foreign rating , see LASORS section F, page 30, para 9.1, which allows this subject to reccomendation by head of training and CAA approval.

CF

Camp Freddie,

I may be mixing this up - my understanding was that if you have enough relevant experience, AND the TRTO has the exemption to the 5 hour min from the CAA, then you MAY be allowed to do 3 hours conversion training instead of 5. I can't point to something in LASORS that supports this, mainly because (like you) I simply don't have the time right now to trawl through it :8

You're doing a multi-crew co-op for R22? What requires multi-crew in an R22, apart from training (which isn't really multi-crew)?

pandalet,

I wish somebody could point me to something that says this !

that was my poor idea of a joke

CF

My bad, sense of humour failure on my part :O