Basic Instrument Rating

• Hold a valid PPL (Private Pilot License): The BIR is available to pilots who have a Private Pilot License (PPL) or equivalent.
• Medical Fitness: You must hold at least Class 2 medical certificate.
• Minimum Age: The candidate must be at least 17 years old.
• Language Proficiency: You must have a sufficient understanding of the English language to communicate with air traffic control (ATC). Your Minimum level of English is Level 4.

 The flight instruction towards EASA Basic Instrument Rating comprises the following instrument flight instruction modules flown in single-engine or multi-engine aeroplane. Module 1 has to be taken first and comprises of some kind of basic instrument flying. Modules 2 and 3 can be taken on your own convenience.

• Module 1 – the core flying training module of flight handling skills by sole reference to instruments;
• Module 2 – the applied flying training module of IFR departure, holding, 2D and 3D approach procedures;
• Module 3 – the applied flying training module of en-route IFR flight procedures;
• Module 4 – the applied flying training module with one engine inoperative

Module 4 is trained only in case the flight training is taken in the multi-engine aeroplane.

The duration of the Basic Instrument Rating training is approximately 1 week.  

If you have started your BIR training outside of pilot.style (e.g. with an instructor) we will have to complete respective modules with you in our flight school. We will simply have to make sure you are safe and sound to be signed-off for a skill test. If you have not started your training yet, we will carry on and start the training with you from the scratch.

The Basic Instrument Rating course is followed by the BIR Skill test with EASA Instrument Rating Examiner.  The validity of the single-engine BIR is 1 year. To revalidate your BIR SE you need to comply with FCL.835.(g)(2).

Once obtained, a BIR is valid for 1 year.

• the decision height (DH) or minimum descent height (MDH) used in aerodrome operating minima shall be at least 200 ft greater than what would otherwise be calculated according to point ‘NCO.OP.110; and
• the visibility used in aerodrome operating minima shall not be less than 1 500 m;

• at the aerodrome of departure, the visibility is at least 1 500 m and the cloud ceiling is at least 600 ft, or the published circling minimum; and
• at the destination aerodrome and at any required alternate aerodrome the available current meteorological information indicates, for the period from +/- 1 hour of estimated time of arrival, a visibility of at least 1 500 m and a cloud ceiling of at least 600 ft, or
• the published circling minimum applicable to the aeroplane category, or the DH/MDH incremented by 200 ft, whichever is the greater.