MattL wrote:Well being very generous and saying a lapsed IMC holder could get to IR test standard in 15 hours, I reckon the basics are about £7000 before any travel and hotel costs.
Strewth, I can't imagine being ready for a proper IR in only 15 hours of flying, and I've had an IMC rating on several occasions. It's not the flying so much - I could probably get that back fairly quickly if I spent a lot of time on the 'mental picture' fluency in a sim of some kind.
It's more the procedural stuff that I have virtually no idea about.
Not only that, but every time I pass an IMC rating flight test (which I've done several times), I feel an absolute fraud, knowing that doing it for real in bouncy clouds and doing it under the hood in clear smooth air are very different.