Don't get me wrong... I think the EIR is a very good proposal. It would have been brilliant for me during my pre-2006 (pre-IR) days, when I flew everywhere, ahem, "VFR", and had to develop some, ahem, "tactics" to arrive at certain airports.
The GM published in the CRD says:
PRIOR EXPERIENCE OF FLIGHT TIME BY REFERENCE TO INSTRUMENTS To be taken into account and credited as prior experience of instrument flight time as PIC on aeroplanes only instrument flight time completed under the following criteria should be credited by the ATO. (a) The instrument flight time should have been completed: (1) under a rating providing the privileges to fly under IFR and in IMC issued by a competent authority of a Member State; or (2) under a national instrument rating issued by a Member State completed before Part- FCL entered into force; or ?(3) under a valid IR(A) issued in compliance with the requirements of Annex 1 to the Chicago Convention by a third country. ?(b) A maximum of 15 hours dual flight training time should be credited towards the 25 hours of dual training required.
I've not seen any sign that EASA intends to change that.
What about the EIR? As far as I can tell EIR + IMCR = IR in UK airspace...Apart from visibility limitations for landing at 1800m
I see this proposed so often. If you have an IMC rating, why not just do the CBM IR? The same TK as the EIR, and 10 hours instrument training, just like the EIR, if you have 30 hours of IF, which surely you have if you use the IMC.
What will be the initial test and subsequent revalidation requirements for the EIR?
If the TK is the same and the annual reval is the same (as the CBM IR) then there is no point in keeping the IMCR+EIR.
But the CBM IR is going to be a lot harder for people to achieve than the IMCR has been, because of the training structure (FTO mandatory fo some of it = a hassle for most people) and also the CBM IR initial test will be the same as the JAA IR initial test.
Once you're awarded the CBM IR, does the rating on your licence say "CBM IR" or "IR"? And is there any difference in privileges?
No difference. It is just a different flight training route which would enable a savvy student to do 30hrs outside the FTO and thus save a pile of money.
The ATP customers will still need to do the normal 14 exams. PPL customers will have 2-3 exams.
The flight test is the same and that is pretty important in realizing the benefit or lack of.
Do we have any clearer idea yet when the CBM IR will be online? One assumes that it would be sensible for it to be online at the time the IMCR was effectively ditched? Common sense and politics will no doubt, scupper this?
I cannot see any way the CBM IR could possibly be ready in time to enable anybody to do it for April 2014.
With thousands of FAA licensed IR pilots (including much of the business jet community) getting shafted in April 2014, there will either be another postponement (maybe 2 years, like the last one) or there will be a complete fiasco.
But you can be certain that EASA will leave this till the last minute.
