Not heard anything for years.
They were comprehensively blocked some years ago, reportedly by someone reporting them to the Home Office for working in the UK without a Visa. We discussed this previously; it is / should be nonsense because of exemptions for brief activities like that.
Any news on the FAA allowing other FAA DPEs abroad?
I am sure this is nonsense i.e. the IMCR is valid in an N-reg.
The UK CAA have never limited the IMCR by aircraft reg, and the FAA have never said the IMCR is inadequate for the purposes of 61.3 (above).
The website mentioned at the top was stripped right down, a long time ago. He now has another one – not sure where and we are not promoting it anyway due to lots of litigation threats against countless individuals in years past. One day the guy joined up PPL/IR (when I was there, over 10 years ago), read some past posts, and made everyone there realise there is no such thing as a “private forum” when anybody can join for £whatever and read past posts.
Is there any update to this since the last post? I’m about to start flying an N reg in the UK with an IRR – seems to be as clear as mud at times?
And there is no way the FAA can presume of the privileges conferred by foreign instrument ratings.
Well, when it comes to flying N-reg aircraft they can do whatever they like.
The new name of the IMC rating is IR(R) so I guess it makes it an instrument rating 
. And there is no way the FAA can presume of the privileges conferred by foreign instrument ratings.
According to FAR 61.3 one can exercise the privileges of a UK license within the UK on a US aircraft and that includes the privileges of the IR(R).
Well spotted, Tumbleweed
Somebody should have realised that “IMC” might imply “IFR”.
(a) The IMC privilege is not as high a level
of qualification as the instrument rating and confers no
privileges for flights requiring compliance with IFR.
But it does, in all but A, B and C airspace!
So, well all pretty much agree the Hughston statement is wrong, or at least “somewhat” wrong.
Maybe there is something, somewhere, in FAA materials suggesting what Hughtson writes is true, but even then, it would be blatantly in contradiction with FAR 61.3.
So, the explanation might be that there is some personal interest playing a role here. Obviously, people flying N-regs without FAA licenses are against his interests, since his job is to issue those FAA licenses to them…
Peter that is where I found it.
