No check is made unless there is an incident or accident.
But to be legal...


"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
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| European and UK rules may be different, in the USA, the
name
| on an IFR flight plan as PIC must be a current IFR rated
| pilot.
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| "Must be" and "is" are not necessarily the same; there is
no cross-check at
| the time the flight plan is filed.
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