VFR-Only Limitation to Multi-Commercial

[Steve428]

I have a friend who just took a checkride for her Multiengine class add-on to her commercial certificate. Before the checkride, she was an instrument rated commercial-SEL pilot. She did NOT do the approaches on her multi add-on checkride, and the examiner placed a VFR-only limitation on her temporary certificate. I have recently heard from a few instructors that if she was an instrument rated pilot before the checkride, then she should have been required to do the instrument approaches, and that the VFR-only limitation should not have even been an option for her . Is this true? Is her recent add-on invalid? Was the examiner wrong for letting her recieve this VFR-only limitation, because of the fact that she was an instrument rated pilot? What should she do about this situation ??? Thanks for any and all help provided.

[Jeff S KDTW]

Steve -

The new certificate is not invalid (read: IS valid with that limitation). Until she performs the tasks necessary to remove the VFR Only limitation, she can not be the ACTING PIC in a ME aircraft in conditions less than VFR conditions.

It won't require much work on her part to have that limitation removed (see the ME PTS).

[Steve428]

Originally Posted by Jeff S KDTW

Steve -

The new certificate is not invalid (read: IS valid with that limitation). Until she performs the tasks necessary to remove the VFR Only limitation, she can not be the ACTING PIC in a ME aircraft in conditions less than VFR conditions.

It won't require much work on her part to have that limitation removed (see the ME PTS).

Thanks a lot for the help. What I'm still confused about is the note that is on the top of area (X), regarding multi engine operations. It reads: "If the applicant is instrument rated, and has previously demonstrated instrument proficiency in a multiengine airplane or does not hold an instrument rating airplane, tasks D and C need not be accomplished." I think I may have been thinking about it in the wrong way. Maybe what the note is saying is that if one wants to get the Multi-Commercial with no limitation, then one has to demonstrate, or has to have demonstrated tasks D and C in a multi-engine airplane. I don't know. Does anyone have a better idea of what this note is saying??? Thanks.