You need the FI course and the UK or EASA CPL exams (13 of them – a roughly 1/3 reduction from the 13 “ATPL” exams).
Not the actual CPL.
You also don’t need an IR to teach the PPL. The IMCR is needed if you want to teach the IMCR.
Peter wrote:
You need the FI course and the UK or EASA CPL exams
Also, in the particular case of the FI rating, you can study for the CPL exams yourself. You don’t have to take an approved ground school course at an ATO.
(You can instruct even without the CPL exams, but only for the LAPL.)
Or the NPPL.
What is an NPPL?
The only gotcha is that if you send up in a shiny expensive turbine, there will be more exams to do,
PPL+IR (via CBIR course) is fine for shiny expensive turbine… it only requires HPA endorsement (which is without authority exams).
Ooo, that’s good to know. Better buy a Lottery ticket for this weekend then. :)
which is without authority exams
What is that? HPA is 1 exam, no? The only total credit for HPA is an exam pass in any ICAO ATPL.
What is an NPPL?
Search for NPPL and all will be revealed 
It’s a UK only thing (valid in France, IIRC) and quite similar to UK LAPL which is now basically meaningless.
Snoopy wrote:
PPL+IR (via CBIR course) is fine for shiny expensive turbine… it only requires HPA endorsement (which is without authority exams).
Right, but the HPA endorsement needs a bit more TK if you took the CBIR route as compared to the traditional modular IR.
HPA needs an exam plus FTO bum on seat time even if you did the full IR.
Only ICAO ATPL theory gives you HPA.
