Requirements for obtaining rating

(1) An applicant for an instrument rating shall be required to satisfy the requirements as respects flying experience, instrument flying tests and technical examination hereunder specified. (2) The applicant shall be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he – (a) has carried out as pilot in charge of a flying machine not less than one hundred and fifty hours’ flying, including fifty hours cross- country flying by day; and (b) has carried out as pilot of a flying machine not less than forty hours’ flying solely by reference to instruments, provided that – (i) a maximum of twenty hours’ instrument flying training carried out on the ground in approved devices may be accepted in 120 Civil Aviation part satisfaction of this requirement; and (ii) in the case of an applicant who has passed an approved course of training in instrument flying the said requirement of forty hours’ flying may be reduced to thirty hours, but in such case the maximum of twenty hours’ instrument flying training referred to in proviso (i) above shall be reduced to ten hours. (3) The applicant shall be required, in the course of an instrument flying test with an examiner on board, to demonstrate his competence to fly solely by reference to instruments and in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules in Schedule II to the Order. (4) The applicant shall be required to undergo an examination (including practical tests) as to his knowledge of the following subjects – (a) aviation law; (b) flight operation; (c) air navigation; (d) meteorology; and (e) the interpretation of signals given in morse code.